Maternal IQ and child mortality in 222 Serbian Roma (Gypsy) women

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1604-1609

  Čvorović, Jelena ^a   Rushton, J Philippe ^b   Tenjevic, Lazar ^c  

^a SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Gypsies; Intelligence; Life history theory; Longevity

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849141924     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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