From grooming to giving blood: The origins of human altruism

Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 223-244

  Silk, Joan B ^a   Boyd, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02725-3_10     Document Type: Chapter

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