The significance of socially transmitted information for nutrition and health in the great ape clade

Social Information Transmission and Human Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 119-136

  Whiten, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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