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    Max Krasnow & Danielle Truxaw

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    Gary L Brase

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Krasnow, M., Truxaw, D. (2017). Adaptationist Program, The. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1858-1

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