Parental status and differential investment in sons and daughters: Trivers-willard revisited

Social Forces

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1111-1136

  Hopcroft, Rosemary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/sof.2005.0035     Document Type: Article

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