Population Growth: Anthropological Implications
- Massachusetts MIT Press 1972
- xxvii, 425 p. illus. 23 cm.
"Proceedings of a colloquium in general anthropology entitled 'Population, resources, and technology,' held at the University of Pennsylvania, March 11-14, 1970, under the combined auspices of the Near East Center, the University Museum, and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, in association with the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Incorporated."
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