Does a trade off between fertility and predation risk explain social evolution in baboons?
The distribution of group sizes in woodland baboons forms a pair of demographic oscillators that trade fertility off against predation risk. Fertility rates, however, set an upper limit on group size of around 90–95 animals. Despite this, two species of baboons (hamadryas and gelada) have groups tha...
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Wiley
2018
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