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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd

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Shennan, S. Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution, by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd. Biol Philos 23, 293–299 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-005-9007-5

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