The Neural Crest/domestication Syndrome Hypothesis, Explained: Reply to Johnsson, Henriksen, and Wright

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Journal Genetics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 2021 Dec 1

PMID 34849912

Citations 11

Authors

Adam S Wilkins

Richard Wrangham

W Tecumseh Fitch

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