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... practice suspensory feeding - hanging by a combination of arms and prehensile feet and reaching out to pluck off fruity morsels from branches that would not bear their weight . In addition , the larger apes have developed special forms ...
... practice suspensory feeding - hanging by a combination of arms and prehensile feet and reaching out to pluck off fruity morsels from branches that would not bear their weight . In addition , the larger apes have developed special forms ...
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... practice of cramming people into archetypal racial pigeonholes becomes even more absurd when black ancestry is reduced to a single grandparent or great - grandparent . Under such circumstances there appears the astonishing phenomenon of ...
... practice of cramming people into archetypal racial pigeonholes becomes even more absurd when black ancestry is reduced to a single grandparent or great - grandparent . Under such circumstances there appears the astonishing phenomenon of ...
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... practice but from social practice to language . As suggested previous- ly , kinship categories are a fertile source of evidence in this matter . For example , English makes no provision for distinguishing between mother's brother's ...
... practice but from social practice to language . As suggested previous- ly , kinship categories are a fertile source of evidence in this matter . For example , English makes no provision for distinguishing between mother's brother's ...
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Population Genetics | 13 |
3 | 19 |
Suborder Anthropoidea versus Suborder Prosimii | 27 |
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Acheulian achieved adaptive Africa agriculture American Indian ancestors anthropologists australopithecines basic behavior biological bone Bushmen calories cave chimpanzees China chromosomes complex cultural evolution cultural systems descent domesticants domesticated ecological economic ecosystem enculturation energy English etic Europe European evolutionary example exchange extinct female Figure flake food-producers forest fossil function genes genetic grain grammatical groups habilines habitat Hence hominid Hominoidea Homo erectus Homo sapiens human language hunters hunting and gathering increase individuals industrial irrigation labor land linguistic living Lower Paleolithic maize males Mesoamerica Mesolithic Middle East Middle Eastern Middle Paleolithic modern morphemes natural Neolithic occur Old World Olduvai patterns peasants percent phonemes pigs plants and animals political pongids population density potlatch preindustrial primates production racial redistribution relationship reproduction rules sexual skin social societies species structure Tehuacán Teotihuacán tion traits Tsembaga Upper Paleolithic village warfare wild women Yanomamö