Father–daughter inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate population
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Father–daughter inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate population
The most common way by which social animals avoid breeding with relatives is for members of one or both sexes to disperse before reproducing [1]. In capuchin monkeys — as in most primates — males disperse while females benefit from lifelong relationships with maternal kin within the group [2]. If α-males — who sire most offspring in a given group — retain their rank for longer than 6 years, the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.055