Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyWritten by a foremost spokesperson on cultural materialism, this book introduces students to the four fields of anthropology making all aspects of archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology accessible and relevant to readers. |
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... ancestors " may not have contributed any genes at all to our heredity . This should have a sobering effect on people who delight in tracing their " roots " more than four generations back to royalty , first settlers , or other ...
... ancestors " may not have contributed any genes at all to our heredity . This should have a sobering effect on people who delight in tracing their " roots " more than four generations back to royalty , first settlers , or other ...
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... ancestor . So if one is inter- ested in the question " What is human nature ? ” part of the answer surely lies in learning about the taxa to which our ancestors belong . All of these taxa have contributed something to human nature ...
... ancestor . So if one is inter- ested in the question " What is human nature ? ” part of the answer surely lies in learning about the taxa to which our ancestors belong . All of these taxa have contributed something to human nature ...
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... ancestors of the modern an- thropoids . Another adaptive radiation took place during the Oligocene , when the ancestors of today's apes and monkeys appear in the fossil record for the first time . Fossils that show the divergence of Old ...
... ancestors of the modern an- thropoids . Another adaptive radiation took place during the Oligocene , when the ancestors of today's apes and monkeys appear in the fossil record for the first time . Fossils that show the divergence of Old ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 7 |
Dominant and Recessive Genes | 14 |
Copyright | |
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