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The descent of man and selection in relation to sex: documento

Charles Darwin
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 42, Iss: 128, pp 13-34
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Part I. Sexual Selection (continued): Secondary sexual characters of fishes, amphibians and reptiles, and secondarySexual characters of birds.
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This article is published in Revista de Filosofía.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6894 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Selection (genetic algorithm).

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Sexual selection and the descent of man, 1871-1971

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