Dispersal, nepotism, and primate social behavior

J Moore - International Journal of Primatology, 1992 - Springer
High degrees of relatedness within primate social groups are thought to promote the
evolution of altruistic behavior via kin selection. Dispersal, for whatever reason, should limit …

Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants

RA Hernandez-Aguilar, J Moore… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
It has been hypothesized that plant underground storage organs (USOs) played key roles in
the initial hominin colonization of savanna habitats, the development of the distinctive skull …

Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the Likouala swamp forests of north central Congo: Preliminary data on populations and ecology

JM Fay, M Agnagna, J Moore, R Oko - International Journal of Primatology, 1989 - Springer
Until recently it was generally believed that gorillas avoid water. In two recent, independent
faunal surveys in the Likouala swamp of north central Congo, we have found that gorillas …

Are dispersal and inbreeding avoidance related?

J Moore, R Ali - Animal Behaviour, 1984 - Elsevier
Sex differences in dispersal and inter-group transfer by birds and mammals are often
considered to be evolved responses to the phenomenon of inbreeding depression. This belief is …

Subsistence strategies of two “savanna” chimpanzee populations: The stable isotope evidence

MJ Schoeninger, JIM Moore… - American Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty‐two chimpanzee hair samples collected from night nests at two different “savanna”
sites were analyzed for carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios represented as δ 13 C and …

Origin of HIV type 1 in colonial French Equatorial Africa?

A Chitnis, D Rawls, J Moore - AIDS research and human …, 2000 - liebertpub.com
Sociocultural factors during the postcolonial period have been implicated as paramount in
generating conditions that promoted both the origin and subsequent epidemic spread of HIV-…

Was there no place like home?: a new perspective on early hominid archaeological sites from the mapping of chimpanzee nests [and comments and reply]

JM Sept, BJ King, WC McGrew, J Moore… - Current …, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
Early archaeological sites in East Africa have traditionally been interpreted as home bases,
suggesting that by two million years ago hominids had developed ranging behavior more …

Female transfer in primates

J Moore - International Journal of Primatology, 1984 - Springer
Intergroup transfer by males is nearly universal among social primates. Furthermore, among
the most frequently studied monkeys-savanna baboons and Japanese and rhesus …

Sleeping parties and nest distribution of chimpanzees in the savanna woodland, Ugalla, Tanzania

H Ogawa, G Idani, J Moore, L Pintea… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Springer
We conducted ecological studies of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the Ugalla area, western
Tanzania. Ugalla is one of the driest habitats of chimpanzees and the Ugalla River is the …

The evolution of reciprocal sharing

J Moore - Ethology and Sociobiology, 1984 - Elsevier
Genetical models of the evolution of reciprocal altruism (as distinct from cooperation, mutualism,
or nepotism) have difficulty explaining the initial establishment of an altruist gene in a …