Adaptation, health, and the temporal domain of human reproductive physiology

Health, Risk, and Adversity

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 108-128

  Ellison, Peter T ^a,b   Jasienska, Grazyna ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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