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The primal path to kinship: a critical review of Bernard Chapais, Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society

Harvard University Press, 2008

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The author Robert A. Wilson thanks Bernard Chapais for his helpful comments on an initial draft of this review.

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Wilson, R.A. The primal path to kinship: a critical review of Bernard Chapais, Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society . Biol Philos 25, 111–123 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-009-9169-7

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