Cultural evolution and human reproductive behavior

Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 481-503

  Newson, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Family identity; Homo; Parenting; Reproductive behavior; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894266795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_21     Document Type: Chapter

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