Stone tools and the evolution of hominin and human cognitio

Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 185-205

  Davidson, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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