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As to the possibility [he says] of any invention originating wholly independently in more than one center, the facts of history no less than the common sense of mankind are fatal to any such hypothesis. . . . In the case of every real invention, however simple and obvious it may appear after it was made, history records the fact that it happened only once.²

²"A Note on Megalithic Monuments," , 15: 163.

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Chicago: Man in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X58XR8I2BY4XZRT.

MLA: . Man, Vol. 15, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X58XR8I2BY4XZRT.

Harvard: , Man. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X58XR8I2BY4XZRT.

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