Why not so great is still good enough: Flexible responsiveness in human reproductive functioning

Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 179-202

  Vitzthum, Virginia J ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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