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Special Case of Bonobos and Female Counter-Adaptations to Rape

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  1. John Jay College, the Macaulay Honors College, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

    Samantha Vee & Nathan H. Lents

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Vee, S., Lents, N.H. (2019). Special Case of Bonobos and Female Counter-Adaptations to Rape. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3684-1

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