Intelligence and birth order in boys and girls

Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 630-634

  Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   van Beijsterveld, Toos C E M ^a   Beem, A Leo ^a   Hoekstra, Rosa A ^a   Polderman, Tinca J C ^a   Bartels, Meike ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth order; IQ; Twins

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849125485     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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