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Humans did not evolve from bats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Steven Pinker  and
Paul Bloom
Steven Pinker
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02739 Electronic mail: steve@psyche.mit.edu
Paul Bloom
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Electronic mail: bloom@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 183 - 185
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