How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2009-10-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0342PMID 19570778PMCID PMC2781963
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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