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Hill, H.M., Guarino, S., Dietrich, S. (2017). Field of Comparative Psychology, The. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2637-1

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