Bird song: The interface of evolution and mechanism

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2004, Pages 55-87

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a   Huber, Sarah K ^a   Taft, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cultural transmission; Neurobiology; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; EVOLUTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG;

AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11244256956     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.35.021103.105719     Document Type: Review

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