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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Page 149
... plants and animals as by technology . Inefficient technology yielded a high standard of living when there was a great abundance of plants and animals , whereas even the most effi- cient hunting and collecting technologies and tech ...
... plants and animals as by technology . Inefficient technology yielded a high standard of living when there was a great abundance of plants and animals , whereas even the most effi- cient hunting and collecting technologies and tech ...
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... plants that have the most desirable features ; plant them . Thus , as indi- cated above , the cultivation of cereal grains led to the genetic changes characteristic of the domesticates . THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS Which came first ...
... plants that have the most desirable features ; plant them . Thus , as indi- cated above , the cultivation of cereal grains led to the genetic changes characteristic of the domesticates . THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS Which came first ...
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... plants and animals by Americans did not depend on the dif- fusion of farming or stock raising from any of the Old World centers of domestication . This means that diffusion is also unlikely to account for the other re- markable ...
... plants and animals by Americans did not depend on the dif- fusion of farming or stock raising from any of the Old World centers of domestication . This means that diffusion is also unlikely to account for the other re- markable ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 7 |
Dominant and Recessive Genes | 14 |
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