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24 - The Genetics of Creativity: The Underdog of Behavior Genetics?

from Part VII - Individual Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2018

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Davide Piffer
Edited by
Rex E. Jung  and
Oshin Vartanian
Rex E. Jung
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
Oshin Vartanian
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Neuroscience of Creativity , pp. 437 - 450
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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