Why a deep understanding of cultural evolution is incompatible with shallow psychology

Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 431-450

  Sperber, Dan ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

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