Parent-offspring conflict over mating: Testing the tradeoffs hypothesis

Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 470-495

  Apostolou, Menelaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Parent offspring conflict over mating; Parental choice; Tradeoffs

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755186545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14747049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/147470491100900401     Document Type: Article

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