Misrepresentational innateness

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 94-95

  Marcus, Gary ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Environment; Genes; Innateness; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749088143     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2009.00084.x     Document Type: Article

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