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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-08-01
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Series: | iScience |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221008324 |