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Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion in the Ovine Model
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Are face recognition abilities in humans and sheep really 'comparable'?
A Towler1, R I Kemp1, V Bruce2
1School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Royal Society Open Science
|February 26, 2019
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