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A Brief Review on the Application of Lanchester’s Models of Combat in Nonhuman Animals

Elizabeth CliftonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of ConnecticutCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 181-191 | Published online: 12 Nov 2020

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