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Book Review: Maternal Personality, Evolution, and the Sex Ratio: Do Mothers Control the Sex of the Infant? By Valerie J. Grant. Routledge, London, 1998, 222 pp., $24.99

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Bogaert, A.F. Book Review: Maternal Personality, Evolution, and the Sex Ratio: Do Mothers Control the Sex of the Infant? By Valerie J. Grant. Routledge, London, 1998, 222 pp., $24.99. Arch Sex Behav 30, 558–561 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010251520243

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