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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...

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Autores principales: Corcobado, Guadalupe, Rodríguez-Gironés, Miguel A, De Mas, Eva, Moya-Laraño, Jordi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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