Parent-offspring conflict in marriage: Implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 251-263

  Wiessner, Polly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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