Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution: A Synthesis, Linda Stone, Paul F. Lurquin and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza.
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History and Geography of Human Genes is one of my favorite books; it might rank up there in my "top 10" if I ever wished to enumerate one. But in both Human Evolutionary Genetics, a textbook, and A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey, a biography of L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, it was noted that the PCA maps…
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The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, And Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans
They discuss the co-evolution of culture and humans going back to prehuman species, among other things.