The social brain and the distributed mind

Proceedings of the British Academy

Volumn 158, Issue , 2010, Pages 3-15

  Dunbar, Robin ^a   Gamble, Clive ^d   Gowlett, John ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c British Academy Centenary Project Lucy to Language   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

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