Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Brain Size in Primates

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Michael A. Schillaci

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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xcluded (whole model adjusted r2 = 0.923, β = −0.4841, p = 0.060),
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At least, not at the proposed alpha value (0.05); there is a slight tendency towards significance, though. Were the analyses bootstrapped?

Then, again, it is not clear whether or not the ANCOVA models were weighted against phylogeny, which could yield different results.

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