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The central problem in human evolution

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Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution.

Edited by Robert S. O. Harding and Geza Teleki. Pp.673. ISBN 0-231-04024-5. (Columbia University Press: 1981.) $52, £28.60.

Woman The Gatherer.

Edited by Frances Dahlberg. Pp.250. ISBN 0-300-02572-6. (Yale University Press: 1981.) $15, £10.50.

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