Pregnancy loss and fecundability in women

Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 15-38

  Holman, Darryl J ^a   Wood, James W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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