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- 72
- Issue
- 742
- Pages
- 416-433
- Citations
- 127
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Julian Huxley
(1938).
Darwin's Theory of Sexual Selection and the Data Subsumed by it, in the Light of Recent Research.
The American Naturalist
, 72
(742)
, 416-433.
https://doi.org/10.1086/280795
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- 10.1086/280795