Sex-biased investment in nonhuman primates: Can Trivers and Willard's theory be tested?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 683-694

  Brown, Gillian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PRIMATE; SEX RATIO;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0034970657     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1659     Document Type: Review

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