What's in a baboon's behind?

R. I. M. Dunbar ()
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R. I. M. Dunbar: School of Biological Sciences, Nicholson Building, University of Liverpool

Nature, 2001, vol. 410, issue 6825, 158-158

Abstract: It is often thought that sexual 'ornaments', such as the swellings that adorn ovulating female baboons, are signalling something about fertility — but what? Long-term studies of wild baboons provide an answer.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1038/35065773

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