From: Russell Wallace (russell.wallace@gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 19:59:39 MDT
On 5/16/06, Dani Eder <danielravennest@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Among groups of male chimanzees, who generally
> stay together for life, it has been found that their
> genetic relatedness is not significantly higher
> within a group than between groups. In other words
> they don't hang out with relatives much.
> Note this is not true for females.
>
Are you sure it's not the other way around? My understanding was that chimp
tribes are based on groups of related males (who live or die in the
territory they were born in) while females disperse.
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