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Disentangling Social Preferences from Group Selection

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2011, 288 pp, $35.00 hbk, ISBN 978-0691151250

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Rosas, A. Disentangling Social Preferences from Group Selection. Biol Theory 6, 169–175 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0013-y

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