Cultural inertia, economic incentives, and the persistence of "southern violence"

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-241

  Daly, Martin ^a   Wilson, Margo ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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