How baboons keep healthy family boundaries

Drawing on 48 years of data on the family trees and mate choices of 1,624 wild baboons in Kenya, a new study finds that baboons generally steer clear of mates that are half-siblings or closer. But baboons proved less discriminating with their father’s side of the family than their mother’s, the researchers report.


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Source: ScienceDaily