Mating Intelligence: Toward an Evolutionarily Informed Construct

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-34

  Geher, Glenn ^a   Miller, Geoffrey ^b   Murphy, Jeremy ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809952-6     Document Type: Chapter

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