The social organizations of squirrel monkeys: Implications for ecological models of social evolution

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 101-112

  Boinski, Sue ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Food competition; Primate social evolution; Saimiri

Indexed keywords

CEBIDAE; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0033235975     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)8:3<101::AID-EVAN5>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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