Behavioral genetics and intelligence

Handbook of Understanding and Measuring Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 165-176

  Petrill, Stephen A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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