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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      16 May 2002
      ISBN:
      9781139164399
      9780521651349
      9780521657303
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164399
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 246 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 246 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physical Anthropology, History, Anthropology, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Physical Anthropology, History, Anthropology, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Wiktor Stoczkowski, a palaeo-anthropologist, argues that the theories of human origins developed by archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to the present day are structurally similar to Western folk theories, and to the speculations of earlier philosophers. Reviewing a remarkable range of thinkers writing in a variety of European languages, he makes a convincing argument for this case. Even though the book criticises the lack of development in theories of human origins, its conclusion is optimistic about the power of the scientific approach to deliver more reliable theories - but only if the influences of popular discourse on its thinking are properly identified.

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