Grooming and social cohesion in primates: a comment on Grueter et al.

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• 作者：Robin I.M. Dunbar ; Julia Lehmann
• 关键词：Primates ; Grooming ; Hygiene ; Social bonding
• 刊名：Evolution and Human Behavior
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：November, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：34
• 期：6
• 页码：453-455
• 全文大小：368 K

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Grueter et al. have recently claimed that grooming time in primates is best explained by terrestriality, which they take to be a proxy for hygiene demand. We suggest that their results arise from a confound between terrestriality and other aspects of sociality, combined with a number of conceptual and sampling problems.