Fertility, Offspring quality, and wealth in datoga pastoralists: Testing evolutionary models of intersexual selection

Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 91-114

  Sellen, Daniel W ^a   Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff ^b   Sieff, Daniela F ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Real World Pictures   (United Kingdom)

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