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Putting sex and gender at the center of sexual selection theory

Evelleen Richards: Darwin and the making of sexual selection. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, xxxiii+669pp, $47.50 HB

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Hamlin, K.A. Putting sex and gender at the center of sexual selection theory. Metascience 27, 395–400 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0329-8

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