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Chapter 16 - Sociobiology

from Part IV - Specialty Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

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Rosemary L. Hopcroft
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Kathleen Odell Korgen
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 156 - 165
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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