Do bonobos copulate more frequently and promiscuously than chimpanzees?

Human Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Takahata, Yukio ^a   Ihobe, Hiroshi ^b   Idani, Gen'Ichi ^b  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copulation; P. troglodytes schweinfurthii; Pan paniscus; Promiscuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009751645     PISSN: 03939375     EISSN: 1824310X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02440153     Document Type: Article

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