Evolutionary psychology and the challenge of adaptive explanation

From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 247-268

  Gray, Russell D ^a   Heaney, Megan ^a   Fairhall, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203484708     Document Type: Chapter

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