Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Sullivan, Alexis P ^a   Bird, Douglas W ^a   Perry, George H ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0065     Document Type: Article

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