Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity
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Hedging their bets? Male and female chacma baboons form friendships based on likelihood of paternity Liza R. Moscovice *, Anthony Di Fiore , Catherine Crockford , Dawn M. Kitchen , Roman Wittig , Robert M. Seyfarth , Dorothy L. Cheney f Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, NY, U.S.A. Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A. c School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Mary’s College, Fife, U.K. Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
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