A pound of biology and a pinch of culture or a pinch of biology and a pound of culture? The necessity of integrating biology and culture in reproductive studies

Women in Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 137-152

  Sperling, Susan ^a   Beyene, Yewoubdar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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