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Half-Siblings in Human Evolutionary History

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  1. Institute of Psychology, University of Pecs, Ifjusag str. 6, 7624, Pecs, Hungary

    Petra Gyuris & Ferenc Kocsor

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  1. Oakland Univ Dept of Psycholgy, Rochester, Michigan, USA

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    Todd K. Shackelford

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Gyuris, P., Kocsor, F. (2016). Half-Siblings in Human Evolutionary History. 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_1498-1

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