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Testosterone, Fraternal Birth Order, and Homosexuality: Comment on Kishida and Rahman (2015)

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    Massimiliano Buoli

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Roberto Croci

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Buoli, M., Croci, R. Testosterone, Fraternal Birth Order, and Homosexuality: Comment on Kishida and Rahman (2015). Arch Sex Behav 44, 1755–1756 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0578-1

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