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Understanding Humans: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology by Barry Lewis; Robert Jurmain; Lynn Kilgore
Call Number: GN60 .L4495 2013 (USG - Course Reserves)
ISBN: 1111831777
Shows how anthropologists / archaeologists go about their work studying human evolution, living nonhuman primates, human adaptation/variation, the origin and dispersal of modern humans, food production, first civilizations of the Old and New Worlds.... Using a biocultural approach, the text balances the presentation of physical anthropology with archaeology and concludes with a new chapter that ties together material on human biological & cultural adaptation by focusing on lessons learned from our species evolution such as the impact of humans on the environment.

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