Positive Allometry and the Prehistory of Sexual Selection

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2010-06-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/653001PMID 20565262
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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