Our Origins

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• 1 What Is Physical Anthropology?
• 2 Evolution: Constructing a Fundamental Scientific Theory
• 3 Genetics: Reproducing Life and Producing Variation
• 4 Genes and Their Evolution: Population Genetics
• 5 Biology in the Present: Living People
• 6 Biology in the Present: The Other Living Primates
• 7 Fossils and Their Place In Time and Nature
• 8 Primate Origins and Evolution: The First 50,000,000 Years
• 9 Early Hominid Origins and Evolution: The Roots of Humanity
• 10 The Origins and Evolution of Early Homo
• 11 The Origin, Evolution, and Dispersal of Modern People
• 12 The Root of the Matter: Farming and Its Consequences
• 13 Evolution: Today and Tomorrow

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