Adapted to Flee Famine: Adding an Evolutionary Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

Psychological Review

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 745-761

  Guisinger, Shan ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STARVATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ESCAPE REACTION; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; STARVATION;

EID: 0242594057     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.110.4.745     Document Type: Review

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