Infanticide and Human Self Domestication
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On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667334