"Most beautiful and most wonderful": Those endless stone tool forms

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-171

  Lycett, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acheulean; cultural evolution; Darwin; descent with modification; handaxes; social transmission; stone tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959742239     PISSN: 17892082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/JEP.9.2011.23.1     Document Type: Article

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