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Social structure as a strategy to mitigate the costs of group living: a comparison of gelada and guereza monkeys

In mammals, and especially primates, group size and social complexity are typically correlated. However, we have no general explanation why this is so. I suggest that the answer may lie in one of the costs of group living: mammalian reproductive endocrinology is extremely sensitive to stress, and fo...

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Autor principal: Dunbar, R.I.M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Academic Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5825386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29497179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.12.005