Sex, bowers and brains

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2001-04-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2000.1425PMID 11345329PMCID PMC1088677
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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