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‘Adoption’ by Maternal Siblings in Wild Chimpanzees

The adoption of unrelated orphaned infants is something chimpanzees and humans have in common. Providing parental care has fitness implications for both the adopter and orphan, and cases of adoption have thus been cited as evidence for a shared origin of an altruistic behaviour. We provide new data...

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Autores principales: Hobaiter, Catherine, Schel, Anne Marijke, Langergraber, Kevin, Zuberbühler, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25084521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103777