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  1. School of Business and Economics, RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 64, 52062, Aachen, Germany

    Maik M. P. Theelen & Robert Böhm

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  1. Oakland Univ Dept of Psycholgy, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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Theelen, M.M.P., Böhm, R. (2016). Reciprocal Altruism and Group Living. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3723-1

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