Origin and evolution of primate social organisation: A reconstruction

Biological Reviews

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 405-435

  Müller, Alexandra E ^a   Thalmann, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ancestral primate; Dispersed multi male system; Evolution; Lemurs; Lorisiforms; Nocturnal prosimians; Promiscuity; Social organisation; Strepsirhines

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; GENDER; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AOTUS; AVAHI; TARSIUS;

EID: 0033780974     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2000.tb00050.x     Document Type: Article

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