PSY BEH 111D Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homicide, Mendelian Inheritance, Ice Cream Cone

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 111D
• Professor: Angela Lukowski

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