Satellite telemetry and social modeling offer new insights into the origin of primate multilevel societies

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Qi, Xiao Guang ^a,b   Garber, Paul A ^b   Ji, Weihong ^c   Huang, Zhi Pang ^a   Huang, Kang ^a   Zhang, Peng ^d   Guo, Song Tao ^a   Wang, Xiao Wei ^a,e   He, Gang ^a   Zhang, Pei ^a   Li, Bao Guo ^a,e  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Shaanxi Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAMMAL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SOCIAL NETWORK; TELEMETRY;

AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL BINDING; GENE FLOW; HERD; HUMAN; INBREEDING; MODEL; ORGANIZATION; PRIMATE; RHINOPITHECUS; SOCIAL NETWORK; TELEMETRY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLORHINI; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AFRICA; ASIA;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; PYGATHRIX ROXELLANA;

GENETIC MARKER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLORHINI; INBREEDING; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; REPRODUCTION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84941905264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6296     Document Type: Article

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