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Impact of fathers on daughters' age at menarche: a genetically and environmentally controlled sibling study.

Developmental psychology - 1 Sept 2008

Tither Jacqueline M, Ellis Bruce J

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Girls growing up in homes without their biological fathers tend to go through puberty earlier than their peers. Whereas evolutionary theories of socialization propose that this relation is causal, it could arise from environmental or genetic confounds. To distinguish between these competing expla...

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PMID: 18793072
DOI: 10.1037/a0013065

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