Humanizing evolution: Anthropology, the evolutionary synthesis, and the prehistory of biological anthropology, 1927-1962

Current Anthropology

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2012, Pages

  Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/662617     Document Type: Article

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