INEVITABLE HUMANS: SIMON CONWAY MORRIS'S EVOLUTIONARY PALEONTOLOGY
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عنوان ژورنال: Zygon?
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0591-2385,1467-9744
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00654.x