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Wood, E., Kennison, S.M. (2018). Birth Spacing and Birth Order. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_835-1

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