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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

by Peter J. Richerson & Robert Boyd

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)