Status and reproduction in humans: New evidence for the validity of evolutionary explanations on basis of a university sample

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 940-950

  Fieder, Martin ^a   Huber, Susanne ^b   Bookstein, Fred L ^a   Iber, Karoline ^a   Schäfer, Katrin ^a   Winckler, Georg ^a   Wallner, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 26244449648     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01129.x     Document Type: Article

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