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General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

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The Evolution of Animal Weapons

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Variability of a dynamic visual signal: the fiddler crab claw-waving display

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Asymmetry of Leg Size and Differential Leg Usage in the Sand Fiddler Crab, Uca Pugilator

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