Human sexual selection and developmental stability

Evolutionary Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 169-195

  Gangestad, Steven W ^a   Thornhill, Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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