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Explaining the human syndrome

Kim Sterelny: The evolved apprentice: How evolution made humans unique. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012, xvi+242pp, $35 HB

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Birch, J. Explaining the human syndrome. Metascience 22, 347–350 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9713-y

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