Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs edited by Thomas Flatt and Andreas Heyland Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits
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and Trade-Offs edited by Thomas Flatt and Andreas Heyland Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-Offs by Thomas Flatt; Andreas Heyland Review by: Mark Viney The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 87, No. 3 (September 2012), pp. 255-256 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666772 . Accessed: 19/08/2012 04:16
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