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A moving target: Legacy review of The Mismeasure of Man. By Stephen Jay Gould, 1981. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-393-01489-4 (paperback)
dc.contributor.authorWolpoff, Milford H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-09T21:20:02Z
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dc.date.issued2022-11
dc.identifier.citationWolpoff, Milford H. (2022). "A moving target: Legacy review of The Mismeasure of Man. By Stephen Jay Gould, 1981. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-393-01489-4 (paperback)." American Journal of Biological Anthropology 179(3): 507-513.
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dc.identifier.issn2692-7691
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/175123
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.
dc.titleA moving target: Legacy review of The Mismeasure of Man. By Stephen Jay Gould, 1981. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-393-01489-4 (paperback)
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEcology and Evolutionary Biology
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScience
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dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ajpa.24608
dc.identifier.sourceAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology
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