Adaptively relevant environments versus the environment of evolutionary adaptedness

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 194-204

  Irons, William ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Adaptively relevant environments; Environment of evolutionary adaptedness; Evolutionary psychology; Human behavioral ecology; Human evolutionary ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221251     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)6:6<194::AID-EVAN2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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