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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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... practice warfare , they did expand the scale and ferocity of military engagements . Village houses , food - processing equipment , crops in the field , domestic ani- mals , secondary - growth forests , and prime garden lands represent ...
... practice warfare , they did expand the scale and ferocity of military engagements . Village houses , food - processing equipment , crops in the field , domestic ani- mals , secondary - growth forests , and prime garden lands represent ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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