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Copulatory Intrasexual Competition

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Reproductive competition among members of the same sex

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Gallup, G.G., Burch, R.L. (2016). Copulatory Intrasexual Competition. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_68-1

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