HONORS 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canine Tooth, Aborted, Fallacy
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Lecture six: forms of social organization, revolves around a mother and her child, solitary female with her dependant offspring. Females have non overlapping home ranges, but men will seek to overlap their home ranges with many females. i. Example: pongo: monogamy pair bonded males and females i. Example: hylobatids: polyandry a female with several males. This is a very rare social organization. i. Example: some new world monkeys: polygyny one male and multiple females that share a home range. It could also be classified as a multi male and multi female group. The females also defend the home range. i. ii. Example for one male and multi female: gorilla. Example for multi male and female: pan: homo is the only species that forms into pairbonds embedded in a multi female group, human societies vs chimpanzee societies, humans: i. ii. Foraging band size could be from 13-250 (average is 24), and is embedded in a community of 250-500 people.
