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Book Review: Gorilla Biology. A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Edited by Andrea B. Taylor and Michele L. Goldsmith, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, xx + 508 pp. 2003, US$90.00 (hardback)

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    Kristen E. Lukas (Curator of Conservation and Science)

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Lukas, K.E. Book Review: Gorilla Biology. A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Edited by Andrea B. Taylor and Michele L. Goldsmith, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, xx + 508 pp. 2003, US$90.00 (hardback). International Journal of Primatology 24, 1363–1366 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:IJOP.0000006260.66110.c5

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