Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... Homo erectus and Homo sapiens . It distanced and distinguished them from primates , not because the latter were primates , but because they were wholly dependent on vegetation . For millions of years man has fashioned himself a body ...
... Homo erectus and Homo sapiens . It distanced and distinguished them from primates , not because the latter were primates , but because they were wholly dependent on vegetation . For millions of years man has fashioned himself a body ...
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... Homo erectus , who lived about 500,000 years ago , was between 710 and 1100 c.c. Admittedly the shape of this skull was different . The brain pan was long and flat and the frontal bone formed an uninterrupted ridge over the eyes , as ...
... Homo erectus , who lived about 500,000 years ago , was between 710 and 1100 c.c. Admittedly the shape of this skull was different . The brain pan was long and flat and the frontal bone formed an uninterrupted ridge over the eyes , as ...
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... Homo erectus and Homo sapiens – before language could take permanent root . - - 3 The Human as Element and the Human as Structure These facts are common knowledge and generally serve to prove how eventful man's emergence was . Yet ...
... Homo erectus and Homo sapiens – before language could take permanent root . - - 3 The Human as Element and the Human as Structure These facts are common knowledge and generally serve to prove how eventful man's emergence was . Yet ...
Contents
Early Primates | 1 |
Societies Without Speech | 9 |
The Demands of Social Life | 15 |
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activities adaptation adolescents adult males affiliation societies alliances anthropoid aptitudes baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism chimpanzees clan Claude Lévi-Strauss constitute conventions correspond created culture depends differentiation distinct dominant male emergence endogamy environment established evolution evolutionary exchange existence exogamy fact father foraging function genetic hierarchy hominid Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship Laius less Lévi-Strauss living maintain male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage masculine matrimonial means monkeys monosexual mother mutual natural natural selection non-reproductive objects observed Oedipus organic permanent phenomenon population predacity primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships represents reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals Robert Jaulin sexes sexual sexual intercourse sexual reproduction significance skills social structure sons species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory Trobriand Islands unit whole woman women young