The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias
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1 Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Paleoanthropology Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, 3 Department of Anthropology, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Anthropology and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 5 Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, 6 Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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دوره 9 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2011