Grouping all 21 taxa, Abouheif and Fairbairn [2] considered owls (with a slope significantly >1; table 2 ) to be an outlier; excluding this taxon, they found homogeneous effect sizes across the remaining taxa and concluded that their results revealed “a highly significant, general trend consistent with Rensch's rule” (p 552).
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Only half right: species with female-biased sexual size dimorphism consistently break Rensch's rule.
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