Author: Publisher:
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Category : Fruit trade
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Situation and Outlook Yearbook
Transportation Energy Data Book
Author: Apes and Human Evolution
Author: Russell H. TuttlePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674073169
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1089
Book Description
In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.
Author: Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0759120498
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Local History
Author: Carol KammenPublisher: AltaMira Press
ISBN: 0759120501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. The second edition highlights local history practice in each U.S. state and Canadian province.
Proceedings RMRS.
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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Proceedings--shrublands under fire
Author: War Expenditures
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Expenditures in the War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
Agricultural Statistics 2003
Author: Forestine ChapmanPublisher: National Agricultural Statistics Service
ISBN: 9780160513879
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Prepared under the direction of Forestine Chapman. Rose M. Petrone was responsible for coordination and technical editorial work. C ontains reliable information on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Its tables of annual data covera wide variety of facts in forms suited to most common use.
The Industrialization of Rural China
Author: Chris BramallPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199275939
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
'The Industrialization of Rural China' highlights the economic & social achievements of the Maoist regime. Using a constructed dataset covering China's 2000 plus counties & complemented by a detailed econometric study of county-level industrialization in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong & Jiangsu, the author shows that history mattered.