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Primate social group sizes exhibit a regular scaling pattern with natural attractors

Primate groups vary considerably in size across species. Nonetheless, the distribution of mean species group size has a regular scaling pattern with preferred sizes approximating 2.5, 5, 15, 30 and 50 individuals (although strepsirrhines lack the latter two), with a scaling ratio of approximately 2....

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Autores principales: Dunbar, R. I. M., Mac Carron, Padraig, Shultz, Susanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29343560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0490