Comparative and functional anatomy of balance in aquatic mammals

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 257-284

  Spoor, Fred ^a   Thewissen, J G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Northeastern Ohio Medical University   (United States)

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