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The Three Musketeers: What do We Still Need to Know About Our Passage Through Prehistory?

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Colloquium on Paul Seabright’s The Company of Strangers.

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Seabright, P. The Three Musketeers: What do We Still Need to Know About Our Passage Through Prehistory?. Biol Theory 6, 127–131 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0017-7

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