Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members
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Chimpanzees are among the primates, demonstrating a variety of prosocial behaviors like collective activities, including territorial patrols, coalitionary aggression, cooperative hunting, food sharing and joint mate guarding and also feel empathy. Chimpanzees, sometimes, reject exchanges in which they receive less valuable rewards than others, and might be one element of a 'sense of fairness', but there is no evidence that they are averse to interactions in which they benefit more than others.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Complex social behaviour derived from maternal reproductive traits
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Theoretical explanations focused on the evolutionary origins of worker behaviour through expression of maternal care behaviour towards siblings. A key prediction of this model is that traits involved in maternal care co-opted through heterochronous expression of maternal genes to result in sib-care, the hallmark of highly evolved social life in insects.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans
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Chimpanzee communities resemble human culture in possessing suits of local traditions that uniquely identify them. As more and more similarities are discovered between the two, people are becoming more motivated to conserve this endangered species chimpanzee.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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