Some elements of a science of culture

The Debated Mind: Evolutionary Psychology Versus Ethnography

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 91-109

  Plotkin, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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