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Cover: The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates, from Harvard University PressCover: The Woman That Never Evolved in PAPERBACK

The Woman That Never Evolved

With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates

Revised Edition

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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$18.50 • £13.95 • €16.70

ISBN 9780674955394

Publication: December 1999

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304 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

13 line illustrations

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    Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California–Davis.

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