Are social-class differences in stature partly genetic? A hypothesis revisited

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-101

  Bielicki, Tadeusz ^a   Szklarska, Alicja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

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