Females drive primate social evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Lindenfors, Patrik ^a,b   Fröberg, Laila ^b   Nunn, Charles L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative methods; Evolutionary lag; Primate behaviour; Socioecological model

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMININITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 10744221001     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0114     Document Type: Article

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