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Michael Tomasello and Felix Warneken
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Michael Tomasello: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. tomasello@eva.mpg.de warneken@eva.mpg.de
Felix Warneken: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. tomasello@eva.mpg.de warneken@eva.mpg.de

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7208, 1057-1058

Abstract: The happy tendency to share resources equitably — at least with members of one's own social group — is a central and unique feature of human social life. It emerges, it seems, in middle childhood.

Date: 2008
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