Mammalian sex ratios and variation in costs of rearing sons and daughters

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• Publication year

  1990

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1990-01-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/343261A0PMID 2300169
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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