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The Biosocial Approach to Human Development, Behavior, and Health Across the Life Course

Kathleen Mullan Harris, Thomas W. McDade
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2018, 4 (4) 2-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.4.01
Kathleen Mullan Harris
aJames E. Haar Distinguished Professor of Sociology and faculty fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and director of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
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Thomas W. McDade
bCarlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology and faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also a senior fellow in the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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