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Demography, not inheritance, drives phenotypic change in hunted bighorn sheep.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Sept 2014
Traill Lochran W, Schindler Susanne, Coulson Tim
Abstract excerpt
Selective harvest, such as trophy hunting, can shift the distribution of a quantitative character such as body size. If the targeted character is heritable, then there will be an evolutionary response to selection, and where the trait is not, then any response will be plastic or demographic. Identifying the relative contributions of these different mechanisms is a major challenge in wildlife conservation. New...
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