Are Pleiotropic Mutations and Holocene Selective Sweeps the Only Evolutionary-genetic Processes Left for Explaining Heritable Variation in Human Psychological Traits?

The Evolution of Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Miller, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary equilibrium models; Evolutionary psychology; Holocene; Individual differences; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921596117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372090.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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