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Worldwide Variation in Human Growth
by Phyllis B. Eveleth  Publisher Comments The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. This theme, prevalent in this book, underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled in one...
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The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography
by Peter Hamilton Publisher Comments The Beautiful and the Damned looks for the first time at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the nineteenth century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography...
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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo Erectus
by Noel T Boaz Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-215) and index....
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The Prehistory of the Tuxtlas
by Robert S. Santley Synopsis Robert Santley's The Prehistory of the Tuxtlas explores the rise and demise of complex society in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Santley synthesizes over twenty-five years of survey and excavation at the site of Matacapan and the...
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Hunter-gatherers: an Interdisciplinary Perspective
by Catherine Panter-brick Publisher Comments Analyses of the ecology, biology and society of past and present-day hunter-gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary volume. Since the seminal work of Man the Hunter in 1968, new research in these three areas has become increasingly...
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Written in Stone - PB (Public Planet Books)
by Sanford Levinson Publisher Comments Is it Stalinist for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson...
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Biological Anthropology (Myanthrolab)
by Craig Stanford Synopsis "Biological Anthropology," 2/e continues to build upon the strength and success of the first edition by integrating the foundations and the most current innovations in the field from the ground up. Over the past twenty years, this field has rapidly...
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The Scars of Evolution
by Elaine Morgan Publisher Comments When Elaine Morgan wrote The Descent of Woman in 1972, it sent shock waves around the world, and is now widely regarded as a key work on human evolution, and essential to any discussion of women's place in society. Now, with The Scars of Evolution...
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Blackwell Anthologies in Social & Cultural Anthropology #9: Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader
by Antonius C. G. M. (edt) Robben Publisher Comments "Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader" provides a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary reflections, examining the tensions between self and other, the relationships between anthropologists and informants, conflicts and ethical...
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Beauty and the Beasts: Woman, Ape and Evolution
by Carole Jahme Publisher Comments Why are the majority of primatologists women? Mary Leakey, Dian Fossey, and Jane Goodall are among the women profiled as Carole Jahme explores the unusual bond between female primatologists and their simian subjects.<BR>...
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Prehistoric Projectile Points Found Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain
by William Jack Hranicky Publisher Comments Revised book on eastern prehistoric stone tools, namely arrowhead and spearpoints. It covers Paleoindian through Woodland times in American prehistory. Book is well illustrated....
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Origins reconsidered :in search of what makes us human
by Richard Leakey Book News Annotation Renowned paleonathropologist Leakey returns to his earlier work--especially his 1977 book Origins (also co-authored by science writer Lewin)--to poke holes in his previous beliefs, but more importantly to reassess how we became "human," and what...
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Bone Woman : a Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo (04 Edition)
by Clea Koff Publisher Comments In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of...
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Ascent of Man
by Henry Drummond Publisher Comments In these pages an attempt is made to tell in a plain way a few of the things which science is now seeing with regard to the ascent of man. What science has to say about himself is of transcendent interest to man, and the practical bearings of this theme...
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Diseases and Human Evolution (05 Edition)
by Ethne Barnes Publisher Comments Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers....
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Primate and Human Evolution (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog)
by Susan Cachel Publisher Comments 'Primate and Human Evolution provides a synthesis of the evolution and adaptive significance of human anatomical, physiological and behavioral traits. Using paleontology and modern human variation and biology, it compares hominid traits to those of other...
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Principles of Visual Anthropology (3RD 03 Edition)
by Paul Hockings Publisher Comments This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and...
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Measuring Stress in Humans: A Practical Guide for the Field (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog)
by Gillian H. (edt) Ice Publisher Comments The purpose of this book is to present state-of-the-art non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in humans, in non-laboratory (field) settings. Following the pathways of Seyle's General Adaptation Syndrome, the...
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Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures
by Richard Leakey Publisher Comments In this engrossing memoir, one of the most controversial, influential, and inspirational figures in African politics today gives the full story of his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, and specifically the African elephant--a crusade that set...
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Freaks
by Daniel P. Mannix Publisher Comments Subtitle We Who Are Not As Others, a twisted menagerie of human deformity....
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