What animals other than primates can tell us about human cultural transmission

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-79

  Laland, Kevin ^a   Cowie, Alice ^a   Morgan, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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