Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 158-159 , February 2001

The importance of cultural inheritance

Received 14 December 1999 ,Accepted 22 March 2000.

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PII: S0306-9877(00)91131-9

doi: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1131

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 158-159 , February 2001

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