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The Chosen Primate
Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
by Adam Kuper
ISBN: 0674128265
ISBN-13: 9780674128262
Format: Paperback
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"[An] elegant and...wise book...Kuper treats the reader to concise and enlightening vignettes of those thinkers on culture, genetics, gender, and a host of other related topics whose fundamental intellectual dynamic has been a recognition of man's primate identity and its disputed implications." -- Christopher Pinney
-- Times Higher Education Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published date: 1996
Size: 6.75 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Balancing biological and cultural perspectives, Adam Kuper reviews our beliefs about human origins, the history of human culture, genes, and intelligence, the nature of gender differences, and the foundations of human politics.
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THE CHOSEN PRIMATE: HUMAN NATURE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Kuper, Adam
Harvard University Press. Very Good+. 1994. Softcover. ISBN: 0674128265. Some edgewear. The front cover has a dent. (Does not affect the interior. ) The back free endpaper is price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pp. Keywords: Anthropology, Man, Culture, Evolution, Biology. ( more information) Offered by Avon Hill Books (United States)
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The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
Kuper, Adam
Harvard University Press. PAPERBACK. 0674128265 Worn cover. Partially removed Used sticker on spine. No annotation, underlining, or highlighting found inside. . Good. ( more information) Offered by Corner-Stone Bookshop (United States)
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KUPER, ADAM (PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. NEW ED. Brand new. This work reconsiders the fundamental questions of anthropology. It balances biological and cultural perspectives, and reviews beliefs about human origins, the history of human culture, genes and intelligence, the nature of gender differences, and the fou ( more information) Offered by Thunder Books (United States)
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