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Shaping Primate Evolution: Form, Function, and Behavior

Fred Anapol, Rebecca Z. German, Nina G. Jablonski - Social Science - 2004 - 444 pages
Shaping Primate Evolution is an edited collection of papers about how biological form is described in primate biology, and the consequences of form for function and behavior ...
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Skin: A Natural History

Nina G. Jablonski - Social Science - 2013 - 288 pages
We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and ...
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Skin: A Natural History

Nina G. Jablonski - Health & Fitness - 2013 - 288 pages
The rich cultural canvas of the skin is placed within its broader biological context in a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes humans who they are.
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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America

David J. Meltzer - Social Science - 2009 - 481 pages
More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they ...
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The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys

Nina G. Jablonski - Nature - 1998 - 412 pages
"producing a nicely bound and printed book, with excellently reproduced illustrations, including colour photographs the publishers' recommended price is more than fair ...
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Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color

Nina G. Jablonski - Social Science - 2012 - 285 pages
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social ...
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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

James Adovasio, Jake Page - Social Science - 2009 - 353 pages
J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they ...
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