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  • Stags of the Sea or Hedgehogs of the Harbor? Inferring the Point of Sculpin Cranial Weaponry

    Creator:
    Buser, Thaddaeus J.
    Abstract:
    Animal weapons are thought to have evolved to compete for reproductive opportunities within a species. Across the diverse weapon-bearing taxa, several evolutionary trends have emerged: (1) increasing complexity and relative size across ontogeny, (2) sexual dimorphism, and (3) higher levels of random deviations from symmetry (i.e., fluctuating asymmetry) than non-weaponized...
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    Dissertation
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    : _____________________________________________________ Brian L. Sidlauskas Animal weapons are thought to have evolved to compete for