Review of R.B. Thomas, Human Adaptation to a High Andean Energy Flow System
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This is a review of R.B. Thomas' Human Adaptation to a High Andean Energy Flow System (1973). Disciplines Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/65
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