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Hye-Knudsen, M. Can Knowing How We Evolved Tell Us How We Should Live? Evolutionary Self-Help as a Genre. Evolutionary Psychological Science 9, 512–519 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-023-00369-w
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