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Krams, I. (2016). Reciprocal Altruism (Middle-Level Theory in Evolutionary Psychology). 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_3598-1
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