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Testing sociobiological hypotheses ethnographically

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Patricia Draper
Patricia Draper
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Department of Individual and Family Studies, College of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1987 , pp. 74 - 75
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