Green Beard Effect, The

Lehtonen, Jussi

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My research is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (project number DE180100526, “Unifying cornerstones of social evolution: Theory and Application”) from the Australian Government.

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Lehtonen, J. (2020). Green Beard Effect, The. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1366-1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1366-1
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