Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Introduction: The evolution is the process by which the heritable characteristics of an organism changes over successive generations. It is often resulting in new species development. These heritable characteristics are the expressions of genes that passed during reproduction from parent to offspring.
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