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Jared DiamondPublication Details
BookHarperPerennial2006Availability
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The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution And Future Of The Human Animal
Bound Together : How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, And Warriors Shaped Globalization
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Nayan ChandaPublication Details
BookYale University Press2007Links
Description
In the end, globalization?from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires?is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM626 .C45 2007 AVAILABLE
Encyclopedia Of Human Development
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Neil J. Salkind, editorPublication Details
E-ResourceSage Publications2006Links
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The Rule Of Mars : Readings On The Origins, History And Impact Of Patriarchy
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edited by Cristina BiaggiPublication Details
BookKnowledge, Ideas & Trends2005Description
This outstanding collection, brought together by Cristina Biaggi, includes essays by an outstanding field of writers from several disciplines such as Riane Eisler (author of The Chalice and the Blade), anthropologists Peggy Reeves Sanday and James DeMeo, biologist Mary Clark, historian Mark Kann of Stanford University, linguist Harald Haarman, writer Donna Henes, artist Suzanne Bellamy, psychiatrist Glenda Cloughley, and several others. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN479.6 .R85 2005 AVAILABLE
After Collapse : The Regeneration Of Complex Societies
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edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. NicholsPublication Details
BookUniversity of Arizona Press2006Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CB311 .A35 2006 AVAILABLE
Before The Dawn : Recovering The Lost History Of Our Ancestors
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Nicholas WadePublication Details
BookPenguin Press2006Description
Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings-driven by revelations discovered in the human genome-has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors-the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN281 .W33 2006 AVAILABLE
Darwin’s Impact : Social Evolution In America, 1880-1920
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edited by Frank X. RyanPublication Details
BookThoemmes2001Description
Volume 1: Social Darwinism and its Critics offers William Graham Sumner?s classic defense of Social Darwinism and its criticism from sociologists and philosophers such as Lester F. Volume 3: Evolution, Law, and Economics explores the impact of evolution on theories of natural law and economics, including pieces from William Graham Sumner, Thomas Nixon Carver, Andrew Carnegie, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis D. –more than 60 articles, tracing the impact of Darwinism on sociology, psychology, race, gender, eugenics, law and economics in the USA –all material reset and indexed, with a new introduction to each volume (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HM631 .D37 2001 v.1 AVAILABLE
Guns, Germs, And Steel
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produced by Lion TV for National Geographic Television & Film ; produced and directed by Tim Lambert, Cassian HarrisonPublication Details
VideoNational Geographic2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) HM206 .G86 2005 LOST&PD6-11/07 MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) HM206 .G86 2005 c.2 AVAILABLE
Race, Racism, And Science : Social Impact And Interaction
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John P. Jackson Jr., and Nadine M. WeidmanPublication Details
BookABC-CLIO2004Links
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Since the eighteenth century when natural historians created the idea of distinct racial categories, scientific findings on race have been a double-edged sword. On the other hand, science has been enlisted to promote racist beliefs ranging from a justification of slavery in the eighteenth century to the infamous twentieth-century book, The Bell Curve, whose authors argued that racial differences in intelligence resulted in lower test scores for African Americans. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT1521 .J33 2004 AVAILABLE
The Red Queen : Sex And The Evolution Of Human Nature
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Matt RidleyPublication Details
Book1st Perennial edPerennial2003Links
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Referring to Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity’s best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN365.9 .R53 2003 c.2 AVAILABLE
Leslie A. White : Evolution And Revolution In Anthropology
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William J. PeacePublication Details
BookUniversity of Nebraska Press2004Links
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His trip to the Soviet Union and participation in the Socialist Labor Party brought him to the attention of the FBI during the height of the Cold War, and near-legendary scholarly and political conflicts surrounded him at the University of Michigan. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN21.W48 P43 2004 AVAILABLE
Sex, Time, And Power : How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
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Leonard ShlainPublication Details
BookViking2003Description
Drastic reconfiguration of their reproductive cycle, particularly the new feature of heavy menses, allowed women to discover the dimension of time and with it the insight that sex caused pregnancy. Throughout Sex, Time, and Power, Shlain offers carefully reasoned and certain to be controversial discussions on subjects such as menses, orgasm, masturbation, menopause, circumcision, male aggression, the evolution of language, homosexuality, and the origin of marriage. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ23 .S45 2003 AVAILABLE
Beyond Foraging And Collecting : Evolutionary Change In Hunter-gatherer Settlement Systems
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edited by Ben Fitzhugh and Junko HabuPublication Details
BookKluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers2002Description
Twenty years after the development of the forager/collector model, it is still seen as one of the best tools for understanding variation in hunter-gatherer subsistence-settlement dynamics. The argument that the seasonal or short-term hunter-gatherer mobility should be patterned in predictable ways with respect to spatial and temporal variation in resource availability was a revolution in the study of hunter-gatherer settlement and land use. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GN388 .B49 2002 AVAILABLE
Complex Polities In The Ancient Tropical World
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Elisabeth A. Bacus & Lisa J. Lucero, editors ; contributions by Jane Allen … [et al.]Publication Details
BookAmerican Anthropological Association1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) GN674 .C65 1999 AVAILABLE
Chimpanzee Material Culture : Implications For Human Evolution
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W.C. McGrewPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press1992Description
The chimpanzee of all other living species is our closest relation, with whom we last shared a common ancestor about five million years ago. The book evaluates the chimpanzee as an evolutionary model, showing that chimpanzee behavior helps us to infer the origins of technology in human prehistory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QL737.P96 M44 1992 AVAILABLE
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