Countries with fewer males have more violent crime: Marriage markets and mating aggression

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-56

  Barber, Nigel ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Homicide; Marriage markets; Mating effort; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349099806     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.20291     Document Type: Article

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