An adaptive model of human reproductive rate where wealth is Inherited: Why people have small families

Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 261-282

  Mace, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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