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10 - Sociality in Non-Primate Mammals

from Part II - Vertebrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2017

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Jennifer E. Smith ,
Eileen A. Lacey  and
Loren D. Hayes
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Dustin R. Rubenstein
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Columbia University, New York
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Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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Comparative Social Evolution , pp. 284 - 319
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