Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Introduction: The technologies are the major factor for the economic development of the countries. The ideas, knowledge, inventions and discoveries of technologies plays an important role in creating more
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