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A Plea for Less Attention to Monkeys and Apes, and More to Human Biology and Evolutionary Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Alice S. Rossi
Alice S. Rossi*
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University of Massachusetts—Amherst, USA
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , August 1995 , pp. 185 - 187
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