Reply to Lukas and Clutton-Brock: Infanticide still drives primate monogamy

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

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2014, 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

EVOLUTION; INFANTICIDE; LETTER; MATING SYSTEM; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL MONOGAMY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PAIR BOND; PRIMATES;

EID: 84899654414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403165111     Document Type: Letter

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