Primate Social Systems: Conspecific Threat and Coercion-Defense Hypotheses

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-88

  Treves, Adrian ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspecific threat; Infanticide; Sexual coercion; Social evolution; Social organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002010193     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021567     Document Type: Article

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