Sexual selection and dimorphism in birds

Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man: The Darwinian Pivot

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 180-230

  Selander, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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