Embodied capital and extra-somatic wealth in human evolution and human history

Human Evolutionary Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 439-456

  Lancaster, Jane B ^a   Kaplan, Hillard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511781193.032     Document Type: Chapter

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