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Male-Provisioning Hypothesis

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Food sharing hypothesis; Hunting hypothesis.

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  1. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Siobhán M. Mattison

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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Mattison, S.M. (2016). Male-Provisioning Hypothesis. 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_105-1

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