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  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

    Katherine Starkweather

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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    Gayle Brewer

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Starkweather, K. (2016). Variance in Female Reproductive Success. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_120-1

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