Sentences with phrase «for social mammals»

Such behavior is atypical for social mammals, in which it is common for an alpha female to sabotage the reproductive efforts of others.

Instead, female lions all bear about the same number of young — an unusual behavior for social mammals.

Not exact matches

But fish and mammals must be considered part of a larger social contract, and just laws for their protection enforced with great vigor.

NOTE on BASIC ASSUMPTIONS: When I write about parenting, I assume the importance of the evolved developmental niche (EDN) for raising human infants (which initially arose over 30 million years ago with the emergence of the social mammals and has been slightly altered among human groups based on anthropological research).

New research shows similarities in the social organisation of bees and mammals, and provides insight into the genetics of social behavior for other animals.

Around the same time, another psychiatrist, John Bowlby, penned his now - canon observations about the central importance of attachment for the social and psychological development of young humans, reminding us that we are just another part of a chain of mammals that depend on the care of others for survival.

Social monogamy evolved many times across mammals as a male mating strategy in species where females are widely spaced for ecological reasons.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

For large - brained mammals like apes that engage in complex social interactions this is relatively straightforward.

«We expected to find similar trends across all primate radiations — that is, that the faces of highly social species would have more complex patterning,» said Santana, who conducted the research as a postdoctoral fellow with the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics and who is now an assistant professor at the University of Washington and curator of mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

For many female mammals, mothers and maternal sisters dominate all aspects of an individual's social life.

Oxytocin plays an important role in priming mammals to form social bonds, but in turn, the early social environment may also be able to shape the development of the oxytocin system [for a review, see Ref.