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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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An Edible History of Humanity
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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The Location of Culture
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Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
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Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
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A Short History of Myth
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.11 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
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Distinction
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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4.19 avg rating — 10,715 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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4.02 avg rating — 12,733 ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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4.26 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 12,034 ratings
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
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3.74 avg rating — 3,495 ratings
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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
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4.18 avg rating — 2,085 ratings
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source
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3.99 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 22,630 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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4.19 avg rating — 9,665 ratings
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On Human Nature
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4.13 avg rating — 3,698 ratings
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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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The Hidden Dimension
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4.02 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
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4.08 avg rating — 1,852 ratings
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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3.97 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
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4.27 avg rating — 4,388 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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Dark Emu
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 15,781 ratings
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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4.02 avg rating — 4,234 ratings
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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3.86 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
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Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.21 avg rating — 113,934 ratings
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Purity and Danger
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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4.04 avg rating — 6,954 ratings
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
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The Popol Vuh
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The Denial of Death
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4.04 avg rating — 17,175 ratings
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
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Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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3.78 avg rating — 2,917 ratings
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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4.02 avg rating — 6,834 ratings
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The Invention of Tradition
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3.95 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
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Gorillas in the Mist
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why
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3.82 avg rating — 3,782 ratings
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Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
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4.01 avg rating — 1,248 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,734 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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The Maya
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Europe and the People Without History
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The Forest People
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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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4.02 avg rating — 3,158 ratings
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The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
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3.83 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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4.21 avg rating — 5,903 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.27 avg rating — 9,198 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 17,055 ratings
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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
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4.32 avg rating — 32,972 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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4.29 avg rating — 3,594 ratings
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The Ascent of Man
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4.21 avg rating — 6,412 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
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3.90 avg rating — 2,732 ratings
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The Scapegoat
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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
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Myth and Reality
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
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We Have Never Been Modern
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All That Remains: A Life in Death
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