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ArticleAnimal behaviour2015

Social bonds in the dispersing sex: partner preferences among adult female chimpanzees.

Steffen Foerster, Karen McLellan, Kara Schroepfer-Walker, Carson M Murray, Christopher Krupenye, Ian C Gilby, Anne E Pusey

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Article in Animal behaviour, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
11.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Female Affiliation and Status in Semi-Free-Ranging Chimpanzees.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026
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  5. Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  6. Weak, but not strong, ties support coalition formation among wild female chimpanzees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  8. Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition: preface to the theme issue.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  10. Parochial cooperation in wild chimpanzees: a model to explain the evolution of parochial altruism.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  17. Age-related change in adult chimpanzee social network integration.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2021
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  19. Cooperation beyond consanguinity: post-marital residence, delineations of kin and social support among South Indian Tamils.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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  20. How can non-human primates inform evolutionary perspectives on female-biased kinship in humans?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Steffen FoersterDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Karen McLellanDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Kara Schroepfer-WalkerDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Carson M MurrayDepartment of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Christopher KrupenyeDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Ian C GilbySchool of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
Anne E PuseyDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Duke University · USArizona State University · USGeorge Washington University · US

Funding

Molecular Epidemiology and Natural History of SIVcpzR01AI058715 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HAHN, BEATRICE H · 2004 to 2013
$6.1M
How Maternal Stress Influences Offspring Health & Development in Wild ChimpanzeesR00HD057992 · NICHD · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MURRAY, CARSON · 2011 to 2013
$726k
How Maternal Stress Influences Offspring Health & Development in Wild ChimpanzeesK99HD057992 · NICHD · LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY · PI MURRAY, CARSON · 2009 to 2010
$173k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI058715NICHD NIH HHS K99 HD057992NICHD NIH HHS R00 HD057992
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In most primate societies, strong and enduring social bonds form preferentially among kin, who benefit from cooperation through direct and indirect fitness gains. Chimpanzees,

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chimpanzee social structurecore areadyadic associationkin biasrange estimationsocial bondingsocial preference

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PMID26028669
PMCPMC4443498
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