Group nepotism and human kinship

Current Anthropology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 779-809

  Jones, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/317406     Document Type: Article

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