Helping‐at‐the‐Nest and Sex‐Biased Parental Investment in a Hungarian Gypsy Population
Current AnthropologyPublished 1 December 2002
Tamás Bereczkei, Robin Dunbar
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N.B. Professor Dunbar is now based at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
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