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Book Review: The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex. By David M. Buss. The Free Press, New York, 2000, 256 pp., $25.00

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Seto, M.C. Book Review: The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex. By David M. Buss. The Free Press, New York, 2000, 256 pp., $25.00. Arch Sex Behav 32, 79–80 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021849614356

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