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Milford H. Wolpoff [5]
Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology
Paleoanthropologist at the University of Michigan; author of Paleoanthropology; coauthor of Race And Human Evolution.

"The major change through the prehistory of our species is the evolution of our brain, the development of a social organ that makes human culture (and language) part of our biology. My question is whether we can ever transcend the consequences and free ourselves of the biological limitations that have been imposed in the process."

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