Studying cultural transmission with in an interdisciplinary cultural evolutionary framework

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 131-147

  Mesoudi, Alex ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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