Three styles in the evolutionary analysis of human behavior

Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 27-46

  Smith, Eric Alden ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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