Height among women is curvilinearly related to life history strategy

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 545-559

  Buunk, Abraham P ^a   Pollet, Thomas V ^a   Klavina, Liga ^a   Figueredo, Aurelio José ^b   Dijkstra, Pieternel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Height; Intrasexual competition; Jealousy; Life history

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951753107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470490900700405     Document Type: Article

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