Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 33, 2013, Pages 13328-13332

  Opie, Christopher ^a   Atkinson, Quentin D ^b   Dunbar, Robin I M ^c   Shultz, Susanne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INFANTICIDE; LACTATION; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING SYSTEM; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL MONOGAMY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; PAIR BOND; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84882388313     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307903110     Document Type: Article

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