Does a trade-off between fertility and predation risk explain social evolution in baboons?

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dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorDunbar, R. I.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMac Carron, P.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Oxforden_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-14T09:24:45Z
dc.date.available2019-01-14T09:24:45Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-23en_US
dc.description| openaire: EC/H2020/295663/EU//RELNET
dc.description.abstractThe 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 that significantly exceed this limit, suggesting that these two species have been able to break through this fertility constraint. We suggest that they have done so by adopting a form of social substructuring that uses males as ‘hired guns’ to minimize the stresses of living in the unusually large groups required by high predation risk habitats.en
dc.description.versionPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.citationDunbar, R I M & Mac Carron, P 2018, 'Does a trade-off between fertility and predation risk explain social evolution in baboons?', Journal of Zoology, vol. 308, no. 1, pp. 9-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12644en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jzo.12644en_US
dc.identifier.issn0952-8369
dc.identifier.issn1469-7998
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/36029
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-201901141212
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/295663/EU//RELNETen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Zoologyen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 308, issue 1, pp. 9-15en
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dc.subject.keywordbodyguard hypothesisen_US
dc.subject.keywordfertilityen_US
dc.subject.keywordfissionen_US
dc.subject.keywordpredation risken_US
dc.subject.keywordsocial organizationen_US
dc.titleDoes a trade-off between fertility and predation risk explain social evolution in baboons?en
dc.typeA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessäfi

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