Fission-fusion social systems as a strategy for coping with ecological constraints: A primate case

Fission-fusion social systems, in which members of a social community form frequently changing subgroups, occur in a number of mammalian taxa. Such systems are assumed to be a response to the costs of grouping, but evidence to support this hypothesis is limited. We use a linear programming approach...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lehmann, J, Korstjens, A, Dunbar, R
التنسيق: Journal article
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2007