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Redesigning Fraternal Birth Order Studies from Top to Bottom

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Wampold, C.H. Redesigning Fraternal Birth Order Studies from Top to Bottom. Arch Sex Behav 42, 1387–1389 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0158-1

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