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Our origins : discovering physical anthropology
- Title
- Our origins : discovering physical anthropology / Clark Spencer Larsen.
- Author
- Larsen, Clark Spencer.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GN50.4 .L37 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxxiii, 468, 74 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 28 cm
- Summary
- "Excellent anthro textbook ... I purchased this book for a class that I will take. I'm on chapter 6 of the book--very interesting, well-written book. The way the pages are set up makes the reader want to read every word."
- "Anthropology dream ... What a great book. A literary marvel within its pages."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Textbooks.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The present: foundation for the past. Evolution: constructing a fundamental scientific theory -- (Genetics: reproducing life and producing variation -- Genes and their evolution: population genetics -- Biology in the present: living people -- Biology in the present: the other living primates -- Primate sociality, social behavior, and culture) -- The past: evidence for the present -- (Fossils and their place in time and nature -- Primate origins and evolution: the first 50 million years -- Early hominid origins and evolution: the roots of humanity -- The origins and evolution of early Homo -- The origins, evolution, and dispersal of modern people -- Our last 10,000 years: agriculture, population, and the bioarchaeology of a fundamental transition) The future: the shape of things to come -- (Evolution: today and tomorrow).
- ISBN
- 9780393934984
- 0393934985
- 9780393118292
- 0393118290
- LCCN
- 2010031481
- OCLC
- ocn657079884
- 657079884
- SCSB-1579251
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library