The Development of Life History Strategies: Toward a Multi-Stage Theory

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Giudice, Marco Del ^a   Belsky, Jay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early experience; Evolutionary approach; Individual differences; Individual variation; Life history

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921557786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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