MORPHOMETRIC DIFFERENTIATION IN NEW ZEALAND POPULATIONS OF THE HOUSE SPARROW (<i>PASSER DOMESTICUS</i>)
EvolutionPublished 1 July 1980Open access
Allan J. Baker
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In the evolutionarily minute time of about 100 years, North American populations of house sparrows have developed significant interlocality differentiation in size and it is suggested from reanalysis of the classical Bumpus data that there are viability components of fitness associated with size at the intralocality level (Johnston et al., 1972).
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Journal Article MORPHOMETRIC DIFFERENTIATION IN NEW ZEALAND POPULATIONS OF THE HOUSE SPARROW (PASSER DOMESTICUS) Get access Allan J. Baker Allan J. Baker Department of Ornithology Royal Ontario Museum Toronto Ontario M5S 2C6Department of Zoology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Evolution, Volume 34, Issue 4, 1 July 1980, Pages 638–653, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1980.tb04003.x Published: 01 July 1980 Article history Received: 15 November 1979 Revision received: 22 January 1980 Published: 01 July 1980
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