For and Pattern in Human Evolution - Some Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Approaches
by Charles Oxnard
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- used - very good/used - good
- ISBN 10
- 0226107647
- ISBN 13
- 9780226107646
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book has been read, previous owner signed first inner page. No other markings inn pages, no wear to covers, very minor wear to dust jacket. Spine intact, no creases. "Pp. ix, 218; 123 text-figures (line-drawings), 12 black-and-white photo-plates. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, red pictorial dust jacket, lettered in white, sm 4to. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how a variety of statistical, physical, and engineering techniques can be applied to the study of bones of living and fossil primates in order to "capture the functionally important aspects" of shape and structure in human evolution (from the jacket flap). " Good Reads "Emeritus Professor, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor"
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- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 494-2023
- Title
- For and Pattern in Human Evolution - Some Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Approaches
- Author
- Charles Oxnard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- used - very good
- Jacket Condition
- used - good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0226107647
- ISBN 13
- 9780226107646
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1973
- Pages
- 218
- Size
- 24.5 cm 17.5 cm
- Keywords
- Non-Fiction, Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Human Evolution
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