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The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society. Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan H. Turner, Stanford, CA:Stanford University Press,1992, 213 pp. US$39.50 cloth. ISBN 0-8047-2002-9. US$12.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-2003-7. Stanford University Press, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

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Frank Kemp Salter
Frank Kemp Salter*
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Max Planck Institute, Germany
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 1995 , pp. 118 - 121
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