Contributions of family reconstitution studies to evolutionary reproductive ecology

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 134-146

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DOI: 10.1002/1520-6505(2000)9:3<134::AID-EVAN3>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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