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Promiscuous words

Promiscuity is frequently used to describe animal mating behaviour, and especially to describe multiple mating by females. Yet this use of the term is incorrect, perhaps reflecting an erroneous adoption of common language to pique reader interest. We evaluated the patterns of use and misuse of the w...

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Autores principales: Elgar, Mark A, Jones, Therésa M, McNamara, Kathryn B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24209457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-66