Lemur behaviour informs the evolution of social monogamy
2014 | journal article
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- Authors
- Kappeler, Peter
- Abstract
- Recent comparative analyses reached contradictory conclusions about the evolutionary origins of social monogamy in primates and other mammals, but they ignored variation in social bond quality between pair-partners. Recent field studies of Malagasy primates (lemurs) with variable intersexual bonds indicate independent evolutionary transitions to pair-living from solitary and group-living ancestors, respectively, as well as four cumulative steps in evolutionary transitions from a solitary life style to pair-living that resolve some contradictory results of previous studies.
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Journal
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- ISSN
- 0169-5347
- Language
- English