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Mating preferences surveys: Ethnographic follow-up would be a good next step

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William Irons
William Irons
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Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 24
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