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January 1, 2026
The term ‘Mating system' refers to an aggregate set of features for a species or population related to mating and reproduction. Across animal taxa, these features sort in predictable ways, resulting in only a handful of different types of mating systems, e ...
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January 1, 2019
The term ‘Mating system’ refers to an aggregate set of features for a species or population related to mating and reproduction. Across animal taxa, these features sort in predictable ways, resulting in only a handful of different types of mating systems, e ...
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January 1, 2019
The term ‘Mating system’ refers to an aggregate set of features for a species or population related to mating and reproduction. Across animal taxa, these features sort in predictable ways, resulting in only a handful of different types of mating systems, e ...
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January 1, 2017
Stuart Altmann is a founding figure in primate behavioral ecology. As part of his Ph.D. research at Harvard, completed in 1960, he produced seminal work on the Cayo Santiago rhesus monkeys. With his wife Jeanne Altmann, he helped found the long-term resear ...
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July 1, 2012
In 1963, Jeanne and Stuart Altmann traveled through Kenya and Tanzania searching for a baboon study site. They settled on the Maasai-Amboseli Game Reserve (later Amboseli National Park) and conducted a 13-month study that laid the groundwork for much futur ...
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April 1, 2010
This chapter surveys connections between the nervous system and the immune system, and suggests that their connections mediate many significant health outcomes. The nervous and immune systems are intimately connected by shared developmental, functional and ...
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