Human origins. Oh, please, tell us another origin story!

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Human origins. Oh, please, tell us another origin story! application/pdf icon
1986

In Journal of Biological and Social Structure, Vol. 9 n° pp.169-187, 1986 (with Shirley Strum)

Abstract

Compares systematically accounts of the origins of humanity in classic texts (Hobbes, Rouseau) and in modern scientific ones (sociobiology) and offers a way of classifying the discrepancies between accounts.