Concealed Ovulation as a Strategy for Increasing Per Capita Paternal Investment

Mankind Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 297-333

  Miller, Edward M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

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