David's score: a more appropriate dominance ranking method than Clutton-Brock et al.'s index
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Professor John Clutton Brock
for John Clutton-Brock, the subject became a consuming interest and occupied more and more of his time in general practice. Although self taught in the main, clearly he was very good at it and his skills were held in very high esteem for he was soon appointed as one of the first consultant anaesthetists at Lincoln County Hospital, shortly after the introduction of the NHS. A few years later he ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal Behaviour
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0003-3472
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2226