The evolutionary biology of dance without frills.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2016-10-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.076PMID 27728787
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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