Child survival and the modulation of parental investment: Physiological and hormonal considerations

Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 249-266

  Ball, Helen ^a   Panter Brick, Catherine ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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