Age Differences in Marriage Partners

Nascimento, Bruna S.

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Nascimento, B.S. (2019). Age Differences in Marriage Partners. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_233-1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_233-1
Received: 17 February 2019
Accepted: 26 April 2019
Published: 27 May 2019
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