Reply to Dixson: Infanticide triggers primate monogamy

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

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages

  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

CALLITRICHINAE; HYLOBATIDAE; INFANTICIDE; LACTATION; LETTER; MATING SYSTEM; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84890849706     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319662110     Document Type: Letter

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