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...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Dunbar, R, Lehmann, J
Fformat: Journal article
Cyhoeddwyd: 2013
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Crynodeb: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 and sampling problems. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.