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Metadata
- Authors
- Geary, D. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- Corresponding author
- Geary, David C.
- ORCID
- Geary, David C.
- Venue
- Advances in Child Development and Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 30
- Pages
- 41-101
- ISSN
- 0065-2407 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W11721958
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 330
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 19.65
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in child development and behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Keywords
- sexual selection, human life history, human evolution, mate choice, reproductive strategies
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Competitive Behavior, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Male, Phenotype, Selection, Genetic, Sexual Behavior, Sex Preselection
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