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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 29, Issue 11, Pages 591-593Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.005
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monogamy; social evolution; primates
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Recent comparative analyses reached contradictory conclusions about the evolutionary origins of social monogamy in primates and other mammals, but they ignored variation in social bond quality between pair-partners. Recent field studies of Malagasy primates (lemurs) with variable intersexual bonds indicate independent evolutionary transitions to pair-living from solitary and group-living ancestors, respectively, as well as four cumulative steps in evolutionary transitions from a solitary life style to pair-living that resolve some contradictory results of previous studies.
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