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. 2021 Jan 27;288(1943):20201423.
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.1423. Epub 2021 Jan 20.

Are palms a good model to explain primate colour vision diversification? A comment on Onstein et al. 2020

Eckhard W Heymann  1 , Lisieux Franco Fuzessy  2
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Are palms a good model to explain primate colour vision diversification? A comment on Onstein et al. 2020

Eckhard W Heymann et al. Proc Biol Sci. .
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Keywords: Arecaceae; animal–plant interactions; diet; primates; seed dispersal.

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