CAS AN 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Folate Deficiency, Stem Cell Factor, Habitat Fragmentation

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Huck et al. (night monkeys) when there is stronger monogamy, males are more likely to take care of the children. Extra-pair copulations when one is in a pair-bond, leave to go have sex w/ another: socially monogamous individuals often copulate outside pair-bond, why, fertility insurance, maximize genetic diversity, good genes, incr. amount of direct benefits. Polygyny threshold model (ptm: when males hold territories that females then enter, fitness among monogamous & polygynous females must be equal, occurs in humans (e. g. kipsigis tribe, kenya); does not occur in callitrichines. Major threats to primates: habitat destruction & degradation, logging, farming/slash-burn agr, road building (fragmentation, climate change, hunting (increased) biggest threat to primates, bushmeat wild game (rising demand) leads to disease transmission (e. g hiv & Ebola: traditional medicines (110 primate species used in traditional medicine (23 endangered; 14 critical, live capture, illegal pet trade, biomedical research, zoos, incr. by human pop. growth.

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