Inbreeding Avoidance in Male Primates: A Response to Female Mate Choice?

Ethology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-119

  Tennenhouse, Erica M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FITNESS; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84891625834     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12187     Document Type: Review

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