The optimal number of fathers: Evolution, demography, and history in the shaping of female mate preferences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 907, Issue , 2000, Pages 75-96

  Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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CONFERENCE PAPER; COPULATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATING; MOTIVATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIMATE; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; THEORY;

EID: 0034100587     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06617.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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