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12 - Further Divergence: the Role of Ecology and Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

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Boris I. Sheftel ,
Natalia V. Moraleva  and
Jacques Hausser
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Jeremy B. Searle ,
P. David Polly  and
Jan Zima
Jeremy B. Searle
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Cornell University, New York
P. David Polly
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Indiana University
Jan Zima
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
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Shrews, Chromosomes and Speciation , pp. 384 - 406
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