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Previous graduate students Nicole Lopez (lead author) and Jonathon Moore-Tupas, along with Ted Stankowich, director of the Mammal Lab, were part of a research paper featured in. The paper, "Brain vs Brawn: Relative brain size is sexually dimorphic amongst weapon-bearing ruminants," was published in the journal . The found that female brains in ruminants, like deer, were larger than their male counterparts due to their development of fighting instruments like horns and tusks.