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Stephen Shennan, Genes, Memes, and Human History. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002, 304 pp. incl. index, hbk, ISBN 0 500 05118 6)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

C. Michael Barton*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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