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- ↑ "When giants walked the Earth" (review by Steve Jones, Nature, September 2, 2004, p. 21) [paid or subscriber view only].
- ↑ Andrew Brown's "Who I Am" (at his Darwin Wars website).
- ↑ "Thinking big: Marek Kohn's study of the men behind Darwinism" (review by Andrew Brown, The Guardian, September 18, 2004).
- ↑ Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005, pp. 188-191.
- ↑ Gabora, Liane; Kaufman, Scott Barry (2010), Kaufman, James C.; Sternberg, Robert J. (eds.), "Evolutionary Approaches to Creativity", The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity, Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 279–300, arXiv: 1106.3386 , doi:10.1017/cbo9780511763205.018, ISBN 978-1-107-74604-6, S2CID 28678743 , retrieved 3 October 2022
- ↑ Lynn Conway, Interim investigative report on Bailey's affiliations and ideological associations (at her University Michigan site).
- ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties".
