Effects of sex, race, ethnicity and marital status on the relationship between intelligence and fertility

Mankind Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 151-187

  Meisenberg, Gerhard ^a   Kaul, Anubhav ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

Dysgenics; Education; Ethnicity; Fertility; Intelligence; Marriage; NLSY; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952351961     PISSN: 00252344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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