Finger-length Ratios, Sexual Orientation and Offspring Sex Ratios
โ Scribed by WILLIAM H. JAMES
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 212
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5193
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