On the psychology of cooperation in humans and other primates: combining the natural history and experimental evidence of prosociality

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2010-09-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2010.0118PMID 20679115PMCID PMC2936168
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