Evolutionary psychology: Counting babies or studying information-processing mechanisms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 907, Issue , 2000, Pages 21-38

  Crawford, Charles ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOPTION; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALADJUSTMENT; MORALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0034104775     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06613.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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