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According to Rensch's rule, sexual size dimorphism (SSD) decreases with increasing body size in species where females are larger than males, whereas SSD increases with body size when males are larger than females. In this study, we examined body size from 15 populations of Bufo minshanicus in the Qinghai–Tibet plateau in China. We estimated the age of the individuals from eight populations to evaluate...