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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Introduction: Physiological adaptations affect the function of the living organism. For example, if an organism is mutated in such a way that the organism is sensitive to disease. Thus the change in culture makes a person’s behavior adapt to their culture.
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