Does Natural Selection Continue to Operate in Modern Mankind?'
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1956
- Publisher
- American Anthropologist
- Volume / pages
- 1956, 58, 595
- Retrieved
- Apr 25, 2012
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