| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (102 pages ; 20 cm) |
| Playing Time |
120000 |
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analog rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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1.4 m. per second |
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digital recording |
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audio file rdaft |
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CD audio |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Barbara J. King, College of William and Mary. |
| Note |
Course guides (48, 52 p.; 22 cm.) included in container. |
| Summary |
Twenty-four lectures detailing the evolution of humanity. |
| Contents |
part I: lecture 1. What is biological anthropology ; lecture 2. How evolution works -- lecture 3. The debate over evolution ; lecture 4. Matter arising: new species -- lecture 5. Prosiminians, monkeys, and apes ; lecture 6. Monkey and ape social behavior -- lecture 7. The mind of the great ape ; lecture 8. Models for human ancestors -- lecture 9. Introducing the hominids ; lecture 10. Lucy and company -- lecture 11. Stones and bones ; lecture 12. Out of Africa. Part II: lecture 13. Who were the Neandertals? ; lecture 14. Did hunting make us human? -- lecture 15. The prehistory of gender ; lecture 16. Modern human anatomy and behavior -- lecture 17. On the origins of Homo sapiens ; lecture 18. Language -- lecture 19. Do human races exist? ; lecture 20. Modern human variation -- lecture 21. Body fat, diet, and obesity ; lecture 22. The body and mind evolving -- lecture 23. Tyranny of the gene? ; lecture 24. Evolution and our future. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography in guidebooks: part 1, pages 184-187; part 2, p. 190-193 (same bibliography in each volume). |
| Subject |
Anthropology.
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Human beings -- Origin.
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Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
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Human beings -- Origin.
(OCoLC)fst00962855
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| Genre/Form |
Compact discs in education.
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Sound recordings. (OCoLC)fst01411639
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Sound recordings.
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Lectures.
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Speaches.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565855493 |
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9781565855496 |
| Music No. |
1573 Teaching Company |
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1571--1572 Teaching Company |
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