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Ever-Expanding Horizons: The Dual Informational Sources of Human Evolution
by Swanson, Carl P
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870233912
- ISBN 13
- 9780870233913
- Seller
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About This Item
Amherst, MA, U.S.A.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. CE5 - A tight, clean, sound copy in light blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine with very minor overall wear plus some very, very light bumping of the top left corner plus the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, front, and back endpapers and title page plus the dust jacket endflaps have been taped down to the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear but it is sunned on the spine and on part of the back near the top plus it is in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps have been taped down to the boards. A book that explains the analogy between organic and cultural evolution. It applies what is known of organic evolution to the cultural scene and looks for similarities as well as dissimilarities in the examination of vertebrate evolution. The author focuses on the idea that each major step in evolution has resulted in an expanded horizon paralleled by increasingly sophisticated sensory and neural apparatus. By the author of "Cytology and Cytogenetics," "The Cell," and "The Natural History of Man." Bibliography, indexed, 162p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW03321
- Title
- Ever-Expanding Horizons: The Dual Informational Sources of Human Evolution
- Author
- Swanson, Carl P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870233912
- ISBN 13
- 9780870233913
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Place of Publication
- Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Human Evolution Social Science Sociology Cultural Evolution
- Bookseller catalogs
- Movements & Organizations / Cultural History; Science / Evolution;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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