Intersections 13: A (mostly) Scientific Crossword
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Scientific American November 13, 2002
We walk on two legs, carry around enormous brains and have colonized every corner of the globe. Anthropologists and biologists have long sought to understand how our lineage came to differ so profoundly from the primate norm in these ways, and over the years all manner of hypotheses aimed at explaining each of these oddities have been put forth. But a growing body of evidence indicates that the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Resonance
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0973-712X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-022-1457-4