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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... evolution , dominant and recessive alleles maintain the same frequency of oc- currence within a given population . THE FORCES OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION Evolution in its broadest sense denotes the change of old forms or structures into new ...
... evolution , dominant and recessive alleles maintain the same frequency of oc- currence within a given population . THE FORCES OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION Evolution in its broadest sense denotes the change of old forms or structures into new ...
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... evolution . This chapter traces the evolution of Old World cultures ( European , Asian , and African ) from the earliest known artifacts indicative of gathering , hunt- ing , and scavenging modes of production up to the threshold of the ...
... evolution . This chapter traces the evolution of Old World cultures ( European , Asian , and African ) from the earliest known artifacts indicative of gathering , hunt- ing , and scavenging modes of production up to the threshold of the ...
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... evolution . The success of Darwin's biological theory of the survival of the fittest ( he called it " natural selec- tion " ) greatly enhanced the popularity of the view that social and cultural evolution also depended on biological ...
... evolution . The success of Darwin's biological theory of the survival of the fittest ( he called it " natural selec- tion " ) greatly enhanced the popularity of the view that social and cultural evolution also depended on biological ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 7 |
Dominant and Recessive Genes | 14 |
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