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Part VIII - Abnormal Behavior and Evolutionary Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2020

Lance Workman
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University of South Wales
Will Reader
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Sheffield Hallam University
Jerome H. Barkow
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Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
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