Sex, kings and serial killers and other group-selected human traits

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 864-894

  Bowles, J T ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN;

ACNE; ADAPTATION; AGE; AGING; ALOPECIA; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; EVOLUTION; GENDER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART DISEASE; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL AGE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MOSAICISM; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; PUBERTY; REVIEW; TRISOMY;

EID: 0033922445     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1999.0951     Document Type: Article

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