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Book Review: Physical Attractiveness and the Theory of Sexual Selection. By Doug Jones. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1996, 174 pp., $24.00

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Townsend, J.M. Book Review: Physical Attractiveness and the Theory of Sexual Selection. By Doug Jones. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1996, 174 pp., $24.00. Arch Sex Behav 30, 554–558 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010299403405

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