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EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 899-909Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/147470491201000511
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applied evolutionary psychology; mate choice; sexual selection; dating science; human behavior
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