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  1. Department of Human Development, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA

    Mamta Saxena

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Saxena, M. (2020). Presence of Siblings. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2291-1

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