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  1. Institut Jean Nicod, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL Research University, Paris, France

    Mélissa Berthet

  2. Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland

    Klaus Zuberbühler

  3. School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

    Klaus Zuberbühler

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Berthet, M., Zuberbühler, K. (2020). Alarm Calling. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1235-1

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