Force–velocity trade-off in Darwin’s finch jaw function: a biomechanical basis for ecological speciation?
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1 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; 2 Department of Biology, 221 Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA; 3 Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium; and 4 Department of Biology, Redpath Museum, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6
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