Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyProfessor Harris - the leading theorist in cultural materialism - bases this comprehensive work on the perspective of thematic and theoretical coherence, giving the book depth and continuity. Speaking directly to students, helpful chapter introductions and end-of-chapter summaries focus on key points before and after reading each chapter. This seventh edition includes meticulous updating of research and scholarship, especially in the very active field of physical anthropology and archaeology. A new feature - "America Now Updates" - turns an anthropological eye on the contemporary U.S., emphasizing the comparative aspects of anthropology and making the discipline relevant to students. |
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... genetic types are known . For example , sup- pose that at one locus there are two alleles : A and a . Because of the ... genetic traits interact with the environment of its particular life experiences . The interaction of genes with ...
... genetic types are known . For example , sup- pose that at one locus there are two alleles : A and a . Because of the ... genetic traits interact with the environment of its particular life experiences . The interaction of genes with ...
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... genes that is not representative of the original group . All the curly - headed individuals , for example , might by accident emigrate at once from one island to another . This kind of genetic drift is called the founder effect . All ...
... genes that is not representative of the original group . All the curly - headed individuals , for example , might by accident emigrate at once from one island to another . This kind of genetic drift is called the founder effect . All ...
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... genes , but individuals do not have frequencies of genes . Second , the traditional racial taxons cannot be recon- ciled with the existence of genetic clines as- sociated with intermediate or transitional gene frequencies . There is no ...
... genes , but individuals do not have frequencies of genes . Second , the traditional racial taxons cannot be recon- ciled with the existence of genetic clines as- sociated with intermediate or transitional gene frequencies . There is no ...
Contents
Why Study Anthropology? | 5 |
Organic Evolution | 9 |
The Inheritance of Genes | 11 |
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