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Body size of insular lizards: a pattern of Holocene dwarfism.

Evolution (1986) 40(5) 997-1008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb00567.x
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Resource deterioration may have led to a reduction of lizard body size, as expressed genotypically in selection for corresponding smaller dimensions, and phenotypically through arrested growth and development leading to compression of the age-class structure. -from Author

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Pregill, G. (1986). Body size of insular lizards: a pattern of Holocene dwarfism. Evolution, 40(5), 997–1008. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb00567.x

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