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  1. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Gareth Craze

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA

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Craze, G. (2019). Costly Signaling and Altruism. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3484-1

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