Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To describe: The advantages of different species of non-human primates in terms of cooperative behaviors and evolutionary fitness.

Introduction: The competition is found centrally in the social behavior of primates, but they are also considered as highly cooperative social animals. For example, the chimpanzees always hunt in the groups of cooperating males and they also share the food after a hunt. Few primates found issuing the warning calls in the presence of predators to make aware their social group about the danger.

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To describe: The evolution of altruism under selective pressure.

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