Grooming and social cohesion in primates: A comment on Grueter et al.
Grueter et al. have recently claimed that grooming time in primates is best explained by terrestriality, which they take to be a proxy for hygiene demand. We suggest that their results arise from a confound between terrestriality and other aspects of sociality, combined with a number of conceptual a...
Main Authors: | Dunbar, R, Lehmann, J |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2013
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