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Human ethology, biological determinism, directive genes, and trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Marc Bekoff
Marc Bekoff
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University of Colorado, Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, Behavioral Biology Group, Boulder, Colo. 80309
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1980 , pp. 623 - 624
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