Introducing the refined gravity hypothesis of extreme sexual size dimorphism.

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Published in BMC Evol Biol on August 03, 2010

Authors

Guadalupe Corcobado1, Miguel A Rodríguez-Gironés, Eva De Mas, Jordi Moya-Laraño

Author Affiliations

1: Dpto. de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Aridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Carretera de Sacramento, s/n. La Cañada de San Urbano, C.P. 04120. Almería, Spain. gcorcobado@gmail.com

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