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Uniquely human. The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior

By Philip Lieberman. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991, 210 pp., $27.95 (hardcover)

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Falk, D. Uniquely human. The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior. International Journal of Primatology 13, 217–220 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02547843

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