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Kin selection, social structure, gene flow, and the evolution of chimpanzees.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 26 Aug 1994
Morin P A, Moore J J, Chakraborty R, Jin L, Goodall J, Woodruff D S
Abstract excerpt
Hypotheses about chimpanzee social behavior, phylogeography, and evolution were evaluated by noninvasive genotyping of free-ranging individuals from 20 African sites. Degrees of relatedness among individuals in one community were inferred from allele-sharing at eight nuclear simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci. Males are related on the order of half-siblings, and homozygosity is significantly increased at several...
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