Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals
Abstract Numerous hypotheses try to explain the unusual appearance of the human eye with its bright sclera and transparent conjunctiva and how it could have evolved from a dark-eyed phenotype, as is present in many non-human primates. Recently, it has been argued that pigmentation defects induced by...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-05-01
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Series: | Zoological Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-023-00210-z |