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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 September 22, 2023, 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 Sep. 2023. 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 September 2023, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=X58XR8I2BY4XZRT.