Generation Time: A Reliable Metric to Measure Life‐History Variation among Mammalian Populations

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2005-05-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/430330PMID 15937795
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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