Deer destiny determined by density

Andrew Cockburn ()
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Andrew Cockburn: Andrew Cockburn is in the Evolutionary Ecology Group, Australian National University

Nature, 1999, vol. 399, issue 6735, 407-408

Abstract: Theory predicts that socially dominant females should produce more sons than daughters. But when times are hard, the higher growth rate of males means that proportionately more will die during development. New evidence shows that, in red deer, both of these effects operate in concert.

Date: 1999
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