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Marvin Harris

18 August 1927-25 October 2001

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Anthropology is concerned with questions such as how small bands and villages gave way to chiefdoms and chiefdoms to mighty states and empires.

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Anthropology is concerned with questions such as what the first human societies and languages were like.

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Anthropology is concerned with such questions as why cultures have evolved along diverse but often remarkably convergent pathways.

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Culture is the learned repertoire of thoughts and actions exhibited by members of social groups.

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Hypodescent is racial classification based on small amounts of genetic inheritance from a particular group. It is also known as the 'the one drop rule'.