Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2009-08-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2009.0052PMID 19620111PMCID PMC2865079
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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