Toward an Evo-Devo Theory of Reproductive Strategy, Health, and Longevity: Commentary on Rickard et al.(2014)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-18

  Belsky, Jay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

evolution; predictive adaptive response; psychosocial acceleration theory; reproductive strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892451322     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691613513471     Document Type: Article

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