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Human biogeography
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ISBN: 1280113898 9786613520739 0520951778 9780520951778 9781280113895 9780520272118 0520272110 661352073X Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the world. He explains our current understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that delayed and directed migrating peoples. He explores the rich and complex ways in which our anatomy, physiology, cultural diversity, and population density vary from region to region in the areas we inhabit. The book closes with chapters on how human cultures have affected each other's geographic distributions, how non-human species have influenced human distribution, and how humans have reduced the ranges of many other species while increasing the ranges of others. Throughout, Harcourt compares what we understand of human biogeography to non-human primate biogeography.


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The Three Failures of Creationism
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ISBN: 1283373556 9786613373557 0520951662 9780520951662 9781283373555 9780520270534 0520270533 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is, and tells how one can detect that an argument is logically fallacious, and therefore invalid, or even duplicitous. Fitch takes his readers through the arguments used by creationists to question the science of evolution. He clearly delineates the fallacies in logic that characterize creationist thinking, and explores the basic statistics that creationists tend to ignore, including elementary genetics, the age of the Earth, and fossil dating. His book gives readers the tools they need for detecting and disassembling the ideas most frequently repeated by creationists.

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Creationism. --- Religion and science. --- Logic. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Faith and reason. --- Faith and logic --- Logic and faith --- Reason --- Reason and faith --- Reason and religion --- Religion and reason --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science and religion --- Creation science --- Scientific creationism --- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy --- Bible and evolution --- Creation --- Intelligent design (Teleology) --- Religious aspects --- Methodology --- Christianity --- beginning of earth. --- beginning of mankind. --- big bang theory. --- biology and anthropology. --- charles darwin. --- creation of earth. --- creationist thinking. --- ecology. --- evolution and creationism. --- evolution and genetics. --- evolutionary science. --- evolutionary theory. --- existence of god. --- fossil dating. --- genes and evolution. --- god and science. --- human biology. --- human genetics. --- mendelian genetics. --- natural selection. --- religion and evolution. --- science and christianity. --- science and logic. --- science and religion. --- science of evolution.

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