Explaining human origins : Myth, imagination, and conjecture

A palaeoanthropologist argues that theories of human origins developed by archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to the present day are structurally similar to Western folk theories, and to the speculations of earlier philosophers. Reviewing a remarkable range...

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Glavni avtor:	Stoczkowski, Wiktor
Format:	Knjiga
Jezik:	Undetermined
Izdano:	New York Cambridge University Press 2002
Teme:	Human beings,Anthropology, Prehistoric,Anthropology,Con người,Nhân học, Thời tiền sử,Nhân học Origin,Philosophy,Nguồn gốc,Triết học
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Explaining human origins : Myth, imagination, and conjecture

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