| Description |
376 pages |
| Series |
A Galaxy book ; GB88 |
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Galaxy book ; GB88
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| Contents |
A definition of man / Kenneth P. Oakley -- Tools and human evolution / Sherwood L. Washburn -- Ecology and the protohominids / George A. Bartholomew, Jr. and Joseph B. Birdsell -- The concept of culture / Leslie A. White -- The argument from animals to men: and examination of its validity for anthropology / J.B.S. Haldane -- Social behaviour and primate evolution / M.R.A. Chance -- Social behavior and the evolution of man's mental faculties / William Etkin -- Natural selection and the mental capacities of mankind / Th. Dobzhansky and M.F. Ashley Montagu -- Culture and the structural evolution of the neural system / Fred A. Mettler -- The spearman and the archer -an essay on selection in body build / Alice Brues -- Culture, personality, and evolution / Jules Henry -- The structural and functional dimensions of a human existence / A. Irving Hallowell -- Personality structure and the evolution of man / A. Irving Hallowell -- Climate, culture, and evolution / Paul T. Baker -- Anthropological implications of sickle cell gene distribution in West Africa / Frank B. Livingstone -- Fossil man and human evolution / Loren C. Eiseley -- Time, morphology, and neoteny in the evolution of man / M.F. Ashley Montagu -- Cultural factors in the evolution of the human dentition / C. Loring Brace -- Cultural and natural checks on population-growth / D.H. Stott |
| Summary |
Essays and artilces by outstanding scientists discuss the role played by cultural factors in the physical evolution of man |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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Civilization.
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Evolution.
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Human beings.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Biological Evolution.
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Civilization.
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| Author |
Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999.
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| LC no. |
62009827 |
| ISBN |
0195007018 |
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9780195007015 |
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