The social role of touch in humans and primates: behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms.
Grooming is a widespread activity throughout the animal kingdom, but in primates (including humans) social grooming, or allo-grooming (the grooming of others), plays a particularly important role in social bonding which, in turn, has a major impact on an individual's lifetime reproductive fitne...
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2010
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