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The Journal of Heredity 2002:93(5)
© 2002 The American Genetic Association 93:386-387

Book Review

Human Biology of Pastoral Populations

Kurt Benirschke

Department of Pathology, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92103

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Edited by W. R. Leonard and M. H. Crawford. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2002.

While I was reading this interesting book for review, the Kenyan Masai were donating their most valuable possessions, cattle, to the people of the United States in memory and for the benefit of survivors of the 9/11 events. Such a gift may have struck Americans as being absurd or at least somewhat peculiar—unless they had read this book or were familiar with the pastoral way of life, the topic of the book, which was conceived in discussions by major scholars at a 1997 meeting. It concentrates . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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