Partner choice creates competitive altruism in humans

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-03-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2006.0209PMID 17255001PMCID PMC2197220
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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