Adaptive signincance of infanticide in primates
1Dept of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University, Hongo Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
|January 14, 2011
Abstract:
Interpretation of the adaptive significance of infanticide has been one of the most controversial topics in recent primatology. Infanticide has so far been observed in natural populations of ten primate species. Accumulating evidence now suggests that it may have different functions in different species.


