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On Units of Selection in Cultural Evolution

✍ Scribed by Derek Gatherer; Neil R. McEwan

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 134 KB
Volume: 192
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1998.0666

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