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    Maternal investment in mammals

    R. D. MARTIN, A. M. MACLARNON in Nature (1986)

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    Gestation period, neonatal size and maternal investment in placental mammals

    Two factors complicate the analysis of scaling relationships between neonatal size or gestation period and maternal size in mammals: (1) a fundamental distinction between species with poorly-developed (altrici...

    R. D. Martin, A. M. MacLarnon in Nature (1985)

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    Gastrointestinal Allometry in Primates and Other Mammals

    There has been a considerable upsurge of interest recently in the concept of interspecific allometry (Gould, 1966), which relates to the scaling of individual characteristics to match body size in different sp...

    R. D. Martin, D. J. Chivers, A. M. MacLarnon… in Size and Scaling in Primate Biology (1985)

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    The association between phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) tasting ability and psychometric variables

    Tasters and nontasters of the chemical phenylthiocarbamide differ in personality and in IQ test scores. Using an undergraduate sample, nontasters were significantly more “placid” (rather than “apprehensive”) “...

    C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor, I. C. McManus, A. M. MacLarnon, P. M. Lanigan in Behavior Genetics (1983)