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... probably reflects local adaptation as much as it indicates levels of technological achievement . A general pattern of technological evolution character- istic of culture rather than of any particular race or region unfolded during the ...
... probably reflects local adaptation as much as it indicates levels of technological achievement . A general pattern of technological evolution character- istic of culture rather than of any particular race or region unfolded during the ...
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... probably related to an increase in warfare , walled towns were built shortly after the appearance of domesticated plants and animals . The most astonishing of these towns was Jericho , whose earliest walls and towers date to 10,000 B.P. ...
... probably related to an increase in warfare , walled towns were built shortly after the appearance of domesticated plants and animals . The most astonishing of these towns was Jericho , whose earliest walls and towers date to 10,000 B.P. ...
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... probably consisted of kinship - mediated groupings such as lineages , sibs , and circulating connubia , which in all likelihood were invented repeatedly in different parts of the world among all the major races in response to local ...
... probably consisted of kinship - mediated groupings such as lineages , sibs , and circulating connubia , which in all likelihood were invented repeatedly in different parts of the world among all the major races in response to local ...
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Biological Evolution | 7 |
FIGURES 11 Anthropologists at Work 289 | 8 |
Population Genetics | 13 |
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