Do characteristics of parental child homicide in Sweden fit evolutionary predictions?

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1029-1037

  Nordlund, Johanna ^a   Temrin, Hans ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PREDICTION;

EID: 35348936098     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01412.x     Document Type: Article

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