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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

    Brian Villmoare

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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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    Christopher Watkins

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Villmoare, B. (2017). Australopithecus africanus . In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3427-1

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