Concessions of an alpha male? Cooperative defence and shared reproduction in multi-male primate groups.

doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0842

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Concessions of an alpha male? Cooperative defence and shared reproduction in multi-male primate groups.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Sept 2012

Snyder-Mackler Noah, Alberts Susan C, Bergman Thore J

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By living in social groups with potential competitors, animals forgo monopolizing access to resources. Consequently, debate continues over how selection might favour sociality among competitors. For example, several models exist to account for the evolution of shared reproduction in groups. The 'concession model' hypothesizes that dominant reproducers benefit from the presence of subordinates, and hence tolerate...

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Aggression
Animals
Dominance-Subordination
Ethiopia
Feces
Female
Genotype
Likelihood Functions
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Reproduction
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Theropithecus

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PMID: 22764162
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0842
PMCID: PMC3415899

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