Global behavioral variation: A test of differential-K

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 273-278

  Meisenberg, Gerhard ^a   Woodley, Michael A ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

Differential K; Evolution; Life history; National g; National K

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878136010     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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