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  1. School of Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University, QLD, Gold Coast, 4229, Australia

    David Waynforth

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

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Waynforth, D. (2016). Mate Copying. 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_20-1

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