Mental modularity and cultural diversity

The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology Versus Ethnography

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 23-56

  Sperber, Dan ^a  

^a Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique   (France)

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