Why isn't everyone an evolutionary psychologist?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Burke, Darren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Comparative cognition; Evolutionary biology; Evolutionary psychology; Psychology education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908003807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00910     Document Type: Article

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