Brain Size, Intelligence, and Paleoclimatic Variation

Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind’s Reproductive System

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 313-335

  Ash, Jessica ^a   Gallup, Gordon G ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809952-23     Document Type: Chapter

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