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Mate preferences among Hadza hunter-gatherers

Frank W Marlowe1

  • 1Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA. fmarlowe@fas.harvard.edu.

Human Nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)
|July 21, 2015
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Keywords:
Evolutionary psychologyHadzaHunter-gatherersMate preferences

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