Aging and reproductive senescence

Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 267-292

  Leidy Sievert, Lynnette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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