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‘Adapative’ hypotheses which propose effects of variation in mean hormone levels on phenotypic traits fail to explain why much larger inter-individual variation does not generate even greater phenotypic variation; this is illustrated with data on laying sequence-specific variation in yolk androgen levels (based on data in fig. 1d, Groothuis et al. 2006; see text for more details).
