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January 1, 2022
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June 16, 2016
AbstractInfectious disease is an important factor that may contribute to primate population declines. In addition, as primate species are lost, the parasitic organisms that coevolved with them are also lost. ...
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January 1, 2014
Understanding adaptive patterns is especially difficult in the case of “evolutionary singularities,” i.e., traits that evolved in only one lineage in the clade of interest. New methods are needed to integrate our understanding of general phenotypic correla ...
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January 1, 2012
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January 1, 2009
Why do we and other animals sleep? When we are asleep, we are not performing activities that are important for reproductive success, such as locating food, caring for offspring, or finding mates. In the wild, sleep might make an animal more vulnerable to p ...
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January 1, 2009
All mammals so far studied experience some form of sleep. When mammals are sleep-deprived, they generally attempt to regain the lost sleep by exhibiting a “sleep rebound,” suggesting that sleep serves important functions that cannot be neglected (Siegel, 2 ...
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January 1, 2009
The primates comprise a diverse group of eutherian mammals, with between some 200 and 400 species, depending on the taxonomic authority consulted (e.g., Corbet & Hill, 1991; Wilson & Reeder, 2005). Most of these species dwell in tropical forests, but prima ...
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