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also especially grateful to Abby McLean for her help 

 with the exhausting task of measuring bones. Finally, 

 I wish to thank Francis Juanes for encouraging me to 

 pursue and publish this study and Jeremy Collie and 

 two anonymous reviewers for comments that helped to 

 improve this manuscript. 



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