Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "behavioral ecology"

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    • Effects of the Distribution of Female Primates on the Number of Males 

      Carnes, Laurel Mariah; Nunn, Charles Lindsay; Lewis, Rebecca J. (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      The spatiotemporal distribution of females is thought to drive variation in mating systems, and hence plays a central role in understanding animal behavior, ecology and evolution. Previous research has focused on investigating ...

    • The Genetic Signature of Sex-Biased Migration in Patrilocal Chimpanzees and Humans 

      Langergraber, Kevin E.; Siedel, Heike; Mitani, John C.; Reynolds, Vernon; Hunt, Kevin; Vigilant, Linda; Wrangham, Richard W. (Public Library of Science, 2007)
      A large body of theoretical work suggests that analyses of variation at the maternally inherited mitochondrial (mt)DNA and the paternally inherited non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) are a potentially powerful ...

    • The International Primatological Society as a Coalition: Primatologists and the Future of Primates 

      Wrangham, Richard W. (Springer Verlag, 2008)
      Because we are currently losing the conservation struggle, new initiatives are worth considering. I suggest 4 of them. The International Primatological Society (IPS) might strengthen primate behavioral ecology partly by ...