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Furtive mating in female chimpanzees

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  1. Department of Biology and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolia, California, 92093-0116, USA

    Pascal Gagneux & David S. Woodruff

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Gagneux, P., Woodruff, D. & Boesch, C. Furtive mating in female chimpanzees. Nature 387, 358–359 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/387358a0

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