Reply to Lukas and Clutton-Brock: Infanticide still drives primate monogamy
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Reply to Lukas and Clutton-Brock: Infanticide still drives primate. monogamy.
For many years, it has been variously suggested that the evolution of monogamy in primates was due to paternal care, dispersed female ranging, or infanticide. It was therefore of little surprise to us that we should find that these traits are strongly associated with mating systems in primates (1). The crucial question, however, is whether these traits are potential drivers of, or secondary res...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403165111