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Walter Leutenegger
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 29
Citations - 2253
Walter Leutenegger is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sexual dimorphism & Allometry. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 29 publications receiving 2203 citations.
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The quantitative assessment of phylogenetic constraints in comparative analyses: sexual dimorphism in body weight among primates.
TL;DR: The separation of phylogenetic from specific effects proposed here also allows phylogenetic factors to be explicitly included in cross‐species comparative analyses of adaptation, which solves a long‐standing problem in evolutionary comparative studies.
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Relationship of sexual dimorphism in canine size and body size to social, behavioral, and ecological correlates in anthropoid primates
TL;DR: The degree of canine size dimorphism is closely related to the amount of male intrasexual selection in a given mating system; and the degree of body sizeDimorphism may be modified by selection pressure from factors such as habitat, diet, foraging behavior, antipredator behavior, locomotory behavior, and female preference.
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Correlates of sexual dimorphism in primates: Ecological and size variables
TL;DR: It is suggested that if there is selection for size increase, whatever its cause, directional selection in both males and females will lead to an increase in sexual dimorphism based on differences in genetic variance between the sexes.
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Scaling of sexual dimorphism in body size and breeding system in primates
TL;DR: It is argued here that there is a strong relationship between polygyny and positive allometry for sexual dimorphism in body size, and this evidence is based on an analysis of the relationship between the scaling of sexualDimorphisms in body weight and the breeding system for 53 primate species, which in most cases coincide with those chosen by Clutton-Brock et al.4 for their study.
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Functional aspects of pelvic morphology in simian Primates
TL;DR: An estimate of the degree and interaction of selective forces acting on the pelvis of simian Primates which result from maternal-fetal size relationships and their interaction with selective forces resulting from locomotory functions in Australopithecus africanus is given to further elucidate the problem of the evolution of hominid bipedalism.