Tag: Ancestry

New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry


Free Download New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry by Russell L. Ciochon, Robert S. Corruccini
English | PDF | 1983 | 886 Pages | ISBN : 1468488562 | 100.8 MB
In the field of paleoanthropology there is perhaps no more compelling issue than the origin of the human lineage. From the 19th-Century proclamations of Darwin, Huxley, and Haeckel up to the present-day announcements of authorities such as Pilbeam, Johanson, and Leakey, controversy and debate have always surrounded the search for our earliest ancestors. Most authorities now agree that many important questions concerning ape and human ances try will be solved by further investigation of the hominoid primates of the Miocene and Pliocene, and through exacting comparative anatomical and biomolecular analyses of their living representatives.

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Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Ed 3


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English | ISBN: 0816690731 | 2015 | 240 pages | AZW3 | 491 KB
What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of sexual and national, as well as racial, difference.

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Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing Your Ancestors)


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 1526768429 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 6.5 mb
Despite its Union with England and Wales in 1707, Scotland remained virtually independent from its partners in many ways, retaining its own legal system, its own state church, and its own education system.

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