Infectious diseases and the evolution of cross-cultural differences

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 243-256

  Schaller, Mark ^a   Murray, Damian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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