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This release is available in German. Division of labour is not only a defining feature of human societies but is also omnipresent among the building blocks of biological organisms and is considered a ...

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Research based on the daily movements of people living in a contemporary hunter-gatherer society provides new evidence for links between the gendered division of labor in human societies over the past ...

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