Good evolutionary reasons: Darwinian psychiatry and women's depression

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 327-338

  Greenspan, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0035538347     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515080120072640     Document Type: Article

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