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Curtis W. Marean
65 works
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· 7 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0002-2670-5733
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A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco
iScience
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2021
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11 authors
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Open access
55
citations
Retrodicting large herbivore biomass for the last glacial maximum on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (South Africa) using modern ecological knowledge of African herbivore assemblages and rainfall
Quaternary Research
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2021
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5 authors
4
citations
Migration of Pleistocene shorelines across the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Evidence from dated sub-bottom profiles and archaeological shellfish assemblages
Quaternary Science Reviews
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2019
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7 authors
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Open access
40
citations
Large mammals of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain showed resilience to extreme climate change but vulnerability to modern human impacts
Quaternary Science Reviews
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2019
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5 authors
42
citations
Pleistocene vertebrate tracksites on the Cape south coast of South Africa and their potential palaeoecological implications
Quaternary Science Reviews
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2019
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8 authors
48
citations
Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins
Current Anthropology
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2019
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4 authors
167
citations
Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa
Journal of Human Evolution
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2019
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5 authors
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Open access
31
citations
From the tropics to the colder climates:
Wits University Press eBooks
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2018
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1 author
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chapter
27
citations
Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa)
PLoS ONE
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2018
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6 authors
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Open access
45
citations
Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago
Nature
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2018
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16 authors
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Open access
121
citations
Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania
PLoS ONE
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2018
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10 authors
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Open access
85
citations
A New Pleistocene Hominin Tracksite from the Cape South Coast, South Africa
Scientific Reports
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2018
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9 authors
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Open access
58
citations
Differentiating between cutting actions on bone using 3D geometric morphometrics and Bayesian analyses with implications to human evolution
Journal of Archaeological Science
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2017
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8 authors
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Open access
64
citations
The trajectory of bone surface modification studies in paleoanthropology and a new Bayesian solution to the identification controversy
Journal of Human Evolution
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2017
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4 authors
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Open access
46
citations
Chronometric investigations of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Zagros Mountains using AMS radiocarbon dating and Bayesian age modelling
Journal of Human Evolution
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2017
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11 authors
46
citations
Lithic technological responses to Late Pleistocene glacial cycling at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa
PLoS ONE
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2017
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7 authors
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Open access
77
citations
The Middle Stone Age human fossil record from Klasies River Main Site
Journal of Human Evolution
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2017
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3 authors
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Open access
44
citations
Foraging potential of underground storage organ plants in the southern Cape, South Africa
Journal of Human Evolution
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2016
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6 authors
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Open access
45
citations
Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time
eLife
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2016
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36 authors
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Open access
278
citations
The transition to foraging for dense and predictable resources and its impact on the evolution of modern humans
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
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2016
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1 author
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Open access
158
citations
Climate-mediated shifts in Neandertal subsistence behaviors at Pech de l'Azé IV and Roc de Marsal (Dordogne Valley, France)
Journal of Human Evolution
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2016
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6 authors
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Open access
48
citations
Strontium isotope investigation of ungulate movement patterns on the Pleistocene Paleo-Agulhas Plain of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
Quaternary Science Reviews
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2016
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8 authors
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Open access
123
citations
Return rates from intertidal foraging from Blombos Cave to Pinnacle Point: Understanding early human economies
Journal of Human Evolution
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2016
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8 authors
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Open access
51
citations
Seasonal availability of edible underground and aboveground carbohydrate resources to human foragers on the Cape south coast, South Africa
PeerJ
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2016
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4 authors
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Open access
42
citations
Foraging potential of underground storage organ plants in the southern Cape, South Africa
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2015
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6 authors
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preprint
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Open access
9
citations
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins
Annual Review of Anthropology
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2015
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1 author
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review
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Open access
135
citations
Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia
Journal of Human Evolution
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2015
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9 authors
61
citations
Submerged shorelines and landscape features offshore of Mossel Bay, South Africa
Geological Society London Special Publications
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2015
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5 authors
43
citations
A new research strategy for integrating studies of paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and paleoanthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
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2015
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14 authors
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Open access
63
citations
The origins and significance of coastal resource use in Africa and Western Eurasia
Journal of Human Evolution
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2014
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1 author
229
citations
Stone Age people in a changing South African Greater Cape Floristic Region
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2014
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9 authors
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chapter
135
citations
A Middle Stone Age Paleoscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa
Quaternary International
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2014
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4 authors
45
citations
Paleoanthropologically significant South African sea caves dated to 1.1–1.0 million years using a combination of U–Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism
Quaternary Science Reviews
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2013
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9 authors
64
citations
Archaeological Reconnaissance for Middle Stone Age Sites Along the Pondoland Coast, South Africa
PaleoAnthropology
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2013
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13 authors
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Open access
50
citations
The Exploitation of Plant Resources by Early H omo sapiens: The Phytolith Record from Pinnacle Point 13B Cave, S outh A frica
Geoarchaeology
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2012
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2 authors
39
citations
Tool-marked bones from before the Oldowan change the paradigm
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2011
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8 authors
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other
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Open access
39
citations
Environmental implications of micromammals accumulated close to the MIS 6 to MIS 5 transition at Pinnacle Point Cave 9 (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
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2011
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5 authors
72
citations
Coastal South Africa and the Coevolution of the Modern Human Lineage and the Coastal Adaptation
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology/Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
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2011
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1 author
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chapter
129
citations
Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Western Cape Province, South Africa) in context: The Cape Floral kingdom, shellfish, and modern human origins
Journal of Human Evolution
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2010
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1 author
344
citations
Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior: perspectives from cave PP13B, Pinnacle Point, South Africa
Journal of Human Evolution
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2010
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2 authors
224
citations
The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)
Journal of Human Evolution
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2010
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8 authors
132
citations
Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia
Nature
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2010
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8 authors
835
citations
When the Sea Saved Humanity
Scientific American
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2010
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1 author
78
citations
Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa
Quaternary Science Reviews
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2010
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4 authors
227
citations
Paleolithic hominin remains from Eshkaft-e Gavi (southern Zagros Mountains, Iran): description, affinities, and evidence for butchery
Journal of Human Evolution
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2009
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2 authors
48
citations
Carnivore competition, bone destruction, and bone density
Journal of Archaeological Science
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2007
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3 authors
101
citations
The Origin of Modern Human Behavior
Current Anthropology
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2003
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2 authors
734
citations
Large Mammal Skeletal Element Transport: Applying Foraging Theory in a Complex Taphonomic System
Journal of taphonomy
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2003
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2 authors
167
citations
Meat eating and human evolution
American Journal of Human Biology
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2002
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1 author
289
citations
An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language
Journal of Human Evolution
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2001
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5 authors
478
citations
Explaining the “Klasies Pattern”: Kua Ethnoarchaeology, the Die Kelders Middle Stone Age Archaeofauna, Long Bone Fragmentation and Carnivore Ravaging
Journal of Archaeological Science
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1999
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2 authors
191
citations
Zooarcheological evidence for the faunal exploitation behavior of Neandertals and early modern humans
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
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1999
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2 authors
149
citations
A critique of the evidence for scavenging by Neandertals and early modern humans: new data from Kobeh Cave (Zagros Mountains, Iran) and Die Kelders Cave 1 Layer 10 (South Africa)
Journal of Human Evolution
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1998
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1 author
141
citations
Mousterian Large‐Mammal Remains from Kobeh Cave Behavioral Implications for Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans
Current Anthropology
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1998
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2 authors
308
citations
Hunter–Gatherer Foraging Strategies in Tropical Grasslands: Model Building and Testing in the East African Middle and Later Stone Age
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
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1997
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1 author
100
citations
The 1992–1993 Excavations at the Die Kelders Middle and Later Stone Age Cave Site, South Africa
Journal of Field Archaeology
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1997
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9 authors
80
citations
The 1992-1993 Excavations at the Die Kelders Middle and Later Stone Age Cave Site, South Africa
Journal of Field Archaeology
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1997
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9 authors
55
citations
Blind Tests of Inter-analyst Correspondence and Accuracy in the Identification of Cut Marks, Percussion Marks, and Carnivore Tooth Marks on Bone Surfaces
Journal of Archaeological Science
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1996
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3 authors
576
citations
Paleoanthropological and paleoecological implications of the taphonomy of a sabertooth's den
Journal of Human Evolution
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1995
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2 authors
135
citations
Implications of Late Quaternary Mammalian Fauna from Lukenya Hill (South-Central Kenya) for Paleoenvironmental Change and Faunal Extinctions
Quaternary Research
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1992
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1 author
94
citations