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  1. State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA

    Rebecca L. Burch

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Burch, R.L. (2019). Threats of Sperm Competition. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1952-2

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