Individual variation in endocrine systems: moving beyond the ‘tyranny of the Golden Mean’

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-05-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2007.0003PMID 18048295PMCID PMC2606721
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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