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  1. Banaras Hindu university, Varanasi, India

    Swati Mishra

  2. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Anubhav Pradeep

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Mishra, S., Pradeep, A. (2019). Parsimony. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_496-1

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