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  1. Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    R Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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    Catherine Salmon

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Hernandez-Aguilar, R.A. (2017). Tool Play. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3163-1

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