Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To identify: The two events caused by biological changes in humans and four events caused by changes in both human biology and human culture.
Introduction: Natural selection of an organism depends upon the challenges faced by them for survival. The process by which the heritable trait of an organism differs or changes over successive generations is called evolution. The theory of evolution explained by Charles Darwin revealed the behavioral changes in humans over time.
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Which of the following subdisciplines studies human origins and evolution?
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