Book Review: Genomic Imprinting and Kinship
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Genomic imprinting and the evolutionary psychology of human kinship.
Genomic imprinting is predicted to influence behaviors that affect individuals to whom an actor has different degrees of matrilineal and patrilineal kinship (asymmetric kin). Effects of imprinted genes are not predicted in interactions with nonrelatives or with individuals who are equally related to the actor's maternally and paternally derived genes (unless a gene also has pleiotropic effects ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolutionary Psychology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1474-7049,1474-7049
DOI: 10.1177/147470490400200113