We review evolutionary processes and mechanisms that gave rise to the diversity of primate social systems. We define social organization, social structure and mating system as distinct components of a social system. For each component, we summarize levels and patterns of variation among primates and ...
Further, we conclude that it is important to seek a priori measures for the effects of presumed selective factors and that the genetic contribution to social systems is still poorly examined. Finally, we examine the role of primate socio-ecology in current evolutionary biology and conclude that p...
Identifying constraints in the evolution of primate societies. The evolutionary study of social systems in non-human primates has long been focused on ecological determinants. The predictive value of socio-ecological m... B Thierry - 《Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London》 被引...
Multilevel (or modular) societies are a distinct type of primate social system whose key features are single-male–multifemale, core units nested within larger social bands. They are not equivalent to fission–fusion societies, with the latter referring to routine variability in associations, either...
Social bonds, here defined as strong, equitable and enduring social relationships, increase fitness in both male and female primates irrespective of their ... B Thierry 被引量: 6发表: 2005年 Convergent Evolution of Hyena and Primate Social Systems DefinitionSocieties of distantly related mammals may...
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Primate socioecological studies have attempted to derive general frameworks using the average behavioural traits of species or genera to place them into categories. However, with the accumulation of primate studies, it is timely to place more emphasis on understanding within-species variation in social...
Although these defences have long been known to rely on individual processes such as the immune system, recent studies have emphasized the importance of social defences for group-living hosts. These defences, called social immunity, have been mostly studied in eusocial insects such as bees, ...
Conversely, great apes exhibit the slowest development, reproduction rates and generational turnover among the extant primate species with orangutans’ life history being slower than that of humans81,82,83. Very few long-term field sites have been able to operate uninterruptedly and follow the devel...
chimpanzees16,17,18; and the same reproductive lifespan as expected for a primate of their size1,19. To test the predictions of the live-long and stop-early hypothesis in toothed whales, we collated and analysed a multispecies database of toothed whale life history. We developed and applied...