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Guns, germs, and steel
The creation of inequality
Sex, class, and culture
Success among nations
After Tylor
Primitive culture
Blood
Intercultural Communication : An Interdisciplinary Approach
Men Like Gods
Grooming, gossip, and the evolution of language
The human animal
Culture and international history
Human evolutionary psychology
Human ecology
Social evolution
Foragers, farmers, and fossil fuels
The prehistory of the mind
The fall
At Home
The origins of human society
The fall and rise of the stately home
From naked ape to superspecies
Grooming, gossip and the evolution of language
The imperial animal
The logic of writing and the organization of society
The evolving self
Mainsprings of civilization
Human societies
Origins of the state and civilization
Bread & circuses
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