Sexual dimorphism: References & Edit History

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Article title updated for style. Nov 06, 2026
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Biology Letters - Sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in animals. Oct 16, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - A brain sexual dimorphism controlled by adult circulating androgens. Aug 17, 2026
Modernized language throughout. Added media. Dec 01, 2025
Add new Web site: OpenStax - Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience - Understanding Sexual Reproduction and Sexual Dimorphism. Oct 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Immunology - Sexual dimorphism in immunity and longevity among the oldest old. Aug 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Stanford University - Sexual Dimorphism and Species Diversity: from Clades to Sites (PDF). May 22, 2025
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Sexual Dimorphism: Why the Sexes Are (and Are Not) Different. Jan 18, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Establishing Sexual Dimorphism in Humans. Mar 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Northern Arizona University - Sexual Dimorphism. Dec 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Sexual Dimorphism: How Female Cells Win the Race. Jun 24, 2023
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - How and why patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world. Apr 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Immunology - Sexual dimorphism in immunity and longevity among the oldest old. Feb 18, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Sexual Dimorphism and Sexual Selection: A Unified Economic Analysis. Dec 23, 2022
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Sexual dimorphism. Sep 02, 2022
Corrected display issue. Feb 14, 2020
Add new Web site: Academia - Ξ‘ge-Associated Variation and Sexual Dimorphism in Adult Cranial Morphology: Implications in Anthropological Studies. Apr 10, 2016
Add new Web site: Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego - Sexual Dimorphism. Apr 10, 2016
Two examples added of males of the species being significantly larger than females of the species. Mar 30, 2015
Add new Web site: University of Missouri - Sexual Dimorphism and Sexual Selection. Jan 28, 2011
New article added. Mar 04, 2009
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