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Review of Steve Stewart-Williams’s The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve

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Gray, P.B. Review of Steve Stewart-Williams’s The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve. Hum Nat 29, 464–467 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-018-9329-z

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