Social bonds provide multiple pathways to reproductive success in wild male chimpanzees

Summary: In most male mammals, fitness is strongly shaped by competitive access to mates, a non-shareable resource. How, then, did selection favor the evolution of cooperative social bonds? We used behavioral and genetic data on wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gombe National Par...

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Main Authors: Joseph T. Feldblum, Christopher Krupenye, Joel Bray, Anne E. Pusey, Ian C. Gilby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-08-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221008324