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Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating for female chimpanzees

For reasons that are not yet clear, male aggression against females occurs frequently among primates with promiscuous mating systems. Here, we test the sexual coercion hypothesis that male aggression functions to constrain female mate choice. We use 10 years of behavioural and endocrine data from a...

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Main Authors: Muller, Martin N, Kahlenberg, Sonya M, Emery Thompson, Melissa, Wrangham, Richard W
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2141672/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17264062
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0206
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