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... Yanomamö The Yanomamö are regarded as among the world's fiercest and most male - centered cultures . Their style of life seems to be entirely dom- inated by incessant quarreling , raiding , dueling , beating , and killing . Yet they ...
... Yanomamö The Yanomamö are regarded as among the world's fiercest and most male - centered cultures . Their style of life seems to be entirely dom- inated by incessant quarreling , raiding , dueling , beating , and killing . Yet they ...
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... Yanomamö hunters must range far from their villages in order not to return empty- handed . Game animals are not abundant , and an area is rapidly hunted out , so that a group must keep constantly on the move . Furthermore , hunting ...
... Yanomamö hunters must range far from their villages in order not to return empty- handed . Game animals are not abundant , and an area is rapidly hunted out , so that a group must keep constantly on the move . Furthermore , hunting ...
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... Yanomamö therefore is that the Yanomamö may formerly have obtained much more of their food supply from hunting and gathering . By intensifying their plantain gardens they increased their population density to the point where they ...
... Yanomamö therefore is that the Yanomamö may formerly have obtained much more of their food supply from hunting and gathering . By intensifying their plantain gardens they increased their population density to the point where they ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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