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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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"An ideal complement to standard anthropology texts or a stand-alone text/reader, Conformity and Conflict continues to offer an in-depth look at anthropology as a powerful way to study human behavior and events. The articles included in this reader cover a broad range of theoretical perspectives and demonstrate basic anthropological concepts. Focus on the current concerns in both anthropology and American society shapes the Twelfth Edition, including...
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Life appeared on our planet many millions of years ago. In this program, explore humankind’s unwritten history and the theory of our evolution. Topics include: characteristics of prehistoric man, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon men, Homo sapiens, and primates—their origins, characteristics, skulls, and evolution.
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Drawing upon the history of early humans and highlighting contemporary indigenous lifeways, John Grim, School of Forestry, and Environmental Studies, Yale University, and Melissa Nelson, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, explain the sustaining power of ritual and celebratory acts that locate humans within the rhythms of Earth's transformative systems.
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We humans consider ourselves unique. In terms of evolution, our ancestors and cousins have all died out. But groundbreaking discoveries made in the last few years have transformed our beliefs about our past. We now know there were at least four distinct species of human alive on the planet at the same time--and possibly more. Who were these "lost tribes" of humanity? What happened when we met them? And where did they all go? The answers strike deep...
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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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"Recent Years Have Seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality - not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality - can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past." "Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology...
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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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