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The first Americans : race, evolution, and the origin of Native Americans  Cover Image Book Book

The first Americans : race, evolution, and the origin of Native Americans

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  • ISBN: 0521823501
  • ISBN: 0521530350 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue : the Kennewick controversy -- 1. Debating the origins of Native Americans -- 2. A brief history of race -- 3. Evolutionary approaches to human variation -- 4. Recent population variation in the Americas -- 5. The Pleistocene and ice-age environments -- 6. Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas -- 7. Kennewick man and his contemporaries -- 8. Human variation in the Pleistocene -- 9. Racial models of Native American origins -- 10. Evolutionary models of Native American origins -- 11. The first Americans : Native American origins.
Subject: Paleo-Indians -- America -- Origin
Paleo-Indians -- America -- Migrations
Human evolution -- America
Human remains (Archaeology) -- America
Kennewick Man
America -- Antiquities

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Acknowledgments viii
Prologue The Kennewick controversy 1(16)
PART I Race and variation
1 Debating the origins of Native Americans
17(12)
2 A brief history of race
29(29)
3 Evolutionary approaches to human variation
58(27)
4 Recent population variation in the Americas
85(18)
PART II The Pleistocene peopling of the Americas
5 The Pleistocene and ice-age environments
103(11)
6 Ancient cultures and migration to the Americas
114(14)
7 Kennewick Man and his contemporaries
128(41)
8 Human variation in the Pleistocene
169(18)
PART III The First Americans, race and evolution
9 Racial models of Native American origins
187(27)
10 Evolutionary models of Native American origins
214(15)
11 The First Americans: Native American origins
229(8)
References 237(28)
Index 265

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