Fertility and mode of subsistence: A phylogenetic analysis

Current Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 878-889

  Sellen, Daniel W ^a   Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1086/204677     Document Type: Article

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