Why energy expenditure causes reproductive suppression in women: An evolutionary and bioenergetic perspective

Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 59-84

  Jasienska, Grazna ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

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