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Clara B. Jones is an Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Animal Behavior, Rutgers-Newark. She received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology at Cornell and was a postdoctoral fellow in population genetics at Harvard. She has conducted field studies of plants, spiders, fish, monkeys, and humans and specializes in the evolution and ontogeny of behavior by social competition.

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Jones, C.B. The selective advantage of patriarchal restraint. Human Nature 7, 97–102 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02733491

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