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"Create the best physical anthropology experience for your students! Our Origins, Fourth Edition, helps students engage with the "big picture" of human evolution. Innovative media, photorealistic art, rigorously current content, new animations, new custom-produced Anthropology Matters videos, and InQuizitive adaptive learning deliver everything needed to teach a state-of-the-art class"--The publisher.
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What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Playwright and novelist Frayn takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives. Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would there be numbers if there were no one to count them? With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work...
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"Through a close textual analysis and a contrastive examination of documents, Mark Glouberman explores the biblical roots of our Western sense of self-identity and the ways in which non-philosophical Greek materials enhance our understanding of how that cultural view developed. Glouberman illustrates how the Hebrew Scriptures advance a humanist rather than a religious view of human nature. He then shows that this same view is germinally present in...
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"This comprehensive, engaging guide to applied research distills the expertise of the distinguished ethnographer and methodologist Pertti Pelto over his acclaimed 50-year career. Having written the first major text promoting mixed qualitative and quantitative methods in applied ethnography in the 1970s, Pelto now synthesizes decades of innovation, including examples from around the world that illustrate how specific methods yield immediate results...
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This book is an introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world history. Up to the Second World War anthropologists tried...
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"This book presents the results of an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration to clarify theories of morality and anthropology and philosophy, showing how each may be enriched by borrowing from the other. Pooling the resources and methods of their respective fields - anthropology and philosophy - May and Abraham Edel examine the wide range of moral differences in the world "to establish 'coordinates' for the more systematic mapping of particular...
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"Flesh and Bone provides a comprehensive look at the methods and techniques used in the field of forensic anthropology. The book contains numerous photographs and charts to help make the techniques and applications of forensic anthropology accessible to a wide audience. As an introductory text, the book offers an overview of one of the most popular areas of forensic science."--Jacket.
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Planet earth is full of life, but how did life begin? All living things are made up of the same chemical elements, and yet are so diverse. In this program, learn about the principal characteristics of living organisms and their evolution through time, DNA, the beginning of Earth's formation 4.5 billion years ago, and the theories of Oparin and Miller.
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"The last few decades have seen an unprecedented surge of empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and human culture. This research and its popular interpretations have sparked heated debates about the nature of human beings and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be properly understood. The goal of Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives...
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"A member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, O'Murchu here offers one of the most intriguing rethinkings of Christian cosmology and theology since the death of his avowed model and inspiration, Teilhard de Chardin. For O'Murchu, Christian faith and the developments of science are not at war but working together toward a critical moment that mayi̮f we do not destroy our planetm̮ean a kind of breakthrough rather than breakdown. "Incarnational becoming,"...
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In Killer Apes, Naked Apes, and Just Plain Nasty People, anthropologist Richard J. Perry delivers a scathing critique of determinism. Exploring the historical context and enduring popularity of the movement over the past century and a half, he debunks the facile and the reductionist thinking of so many popularizers of biological determinism while considering why biological explanations have resonated in ways that serve to justify deeply conservative...
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