Human evolutionary psychology and animal behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 509-519

  Daly, Martin ^a   Wilson, Margo I ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 0033105270     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1027     Document Type: Review

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