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Introducing the refined gravity hypothesis of extreme sexual size dimorphism
BACKGROUND: Explanations for the evolution of female-biased, extreme Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD), which has puzzled researchers since Darwin, are still controversial. Here we propose an extension of the Gravity Hypothesis (i.e., the GH, which postulates a climbing advantage for small males) that in...
Autores principales: | Corcobado, Guadalupe, Rodríguez-Gironés, Miguel A, De Mas, Eva, Moya-Laraño, Jordi |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20682029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-236 |
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