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The evolution of culture : an interdisciplinary view

by Robin Dunbar, Chris Knight, Camilla Power

This work examines how contemporary evolutionary theory can inform the study of human symbolic culture, analysing its expression through language, ritual, religion and art.

Accession 27676 ISBN 9780748610754 Publisher Edinburgh University Press
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