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A Quantitative Law in Anthropology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert L. Carneiro*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology American Museum of Natural History

Abstract

The contention by Donn T. Bayard that anthropology is not rigorous enough to be a science or to formulate scientific laws is challenged, and an example is presented of a regularity in cultural evolution with a claim to being considered a statistical law.

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1970

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