Homologies of animal and human sexual behaviors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 187-200

  Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RATS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030250323     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1996.0024     Document Type: Review

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