Battered women have more sons: A possible evolutionary reason why some battered women stay

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-139

  Kanazawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Evolutionary psychology; Generalized Trivers Willard hypothesis (gTWH); Offspring sex ratio; Selfish genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449100378     PISSN: 17892082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/JEP.2008.1007     Document Type: Article

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