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Maternal Abandonment and Maternal-Fetal Conflict

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    Jennifer Kotler

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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Kotler, J. (2016). Maternal Abandonment and Maternal-Fetal Conflict. 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_3043-1

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