Essentials of Physical Anthropology (Third Edition)
Essentials of Physical Anthropology (Third Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393612264
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To discuss: The process of genetic dating is accomplished through molecular clock and data obtained by this process is used by the physical anthropologists.

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The progression of life on earth is occurring in geologic period, where the first single celled organism came into existence about four billion years ago and the initial multicellular creatures appeared around one billion years ago. The evolution of the primate order is most recent which occurred in the last fifty million years ago and evolution of humans is from past seven million years ago.

The physical indication of the evolutionary process constitutes the fossil record. The advancement of concurrent dating technology has the ability to reconstruct ancient environments which have expanded palaeontologists and anthropologists to understand the timings of evolutionary events.

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