Phenotypic Plasticity as a Product of Selection in a Variable Environment

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  The American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1995-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1086/285752
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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