Geneticists looked to the human genome to understand human evolution. But it's hard to interpret without considering the inheritance of culture, finds Erika Check Hayden.
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Check Hayden, E. Darwin 200: The other strand. Nature 457, 776–779 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457776a
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