Social Evolution in Primates: The Role of Ecological Factors and Male Behaviour
Social Evolution in Primates: The Role of Ecological Factors and Male Behaviour
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灵长类动物的社会进化:生态因素和雄性行为的作用
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1996
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C. Schaik
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C. Schaik
In order to explain the variation in primate social systems, socio-ecology has focussed on the role of ecological factors to explain female associations and relationship and on the spatio-temporal distribution of mating opportunities to explain male associations and relationships. While this apporach has been quite successful, it ignores male-female associations and relationships and ignores the possibility that male behaviour modifies other aspects of the social system. In this paper, the ecological approach is complemented by consideration of a social factor found to limit fitness, namely infanticide by males. Infanticide risk is proposed to have selected for male-female associations and relationships and to have modified female-female relationships in some cases. It is also hypothetized to have selected for the unusual male bonding by species such as chimpanzees. Finally, its possible impact on between-group relations is examined. The findings suggest that infanticide is of equal importance to ecological factors, with which it may interact in sometimes complex way, in shaping primate social systems