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Alan F. Dixson: Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans, 2nd Edition

Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, xxii + 785 pp., including 4 pp. of color plates. ISBN 978-0-19-954464-6, $135.00 (Hardcover)

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Dubuc, C. Alan F. Dixson: Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Humans, 2nd Edition. Int J Primatol 34, 216–218 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-012-9648-6

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