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The Past In Perspective, 3/e
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Encountering the Past

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Prelude
A Foreign Country
An Anthropological Perspective
An Ancient World
       The Age Of The Earth
A Wreck Of A World
       Noah’s Flood
Equable And Steady Change
Ancient Humans?
       The Implications Of Frere’s Discovery
       More Stone Tools . . . And Bones
The Slow Agency Of Existing Causes
Ancient Humans Revisited
       Cultures Ancient And Changing
Charles Darwin And The Antiquity Of Life
An Evolutionary Philosophy
       The Mutability Of Species
The Origin Of Species
       Human Evolution
       The Human Factor
Cultures Evolving
Our Modern View
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