Song learning, early nutrition and sexual selection in

American Zoologist

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 179-190

  Nowicki, Stephen ^a   Peters, Susan ^a   Podos, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/icb/38.1.179     Document Type: Article

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