Fertility as a constraint on group size in African great apes

Gorillas and chimpanzees live in social groups of very different size and structure. Here I test the hypothesis that this difference might reflect the way fertility maps onto group demography as it does in other Catarrhines. For both genera, birth rates and the number of surviving offspring per fema...

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Main Author: Dunbar, RIM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019