Working memory and the speed of life

Current Anthropology

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Nowell, April ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1086/650479     Document Type: Article

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