Social pressures have selected for an extended juvenile period in primates
Abstract
Primates are highly social animals. As such, they utilize a large repertoire of social skills to manage their complex and dynamic social environments. In order to acquire complex social skills, primates require an extended learning period. Here 1 perform a comparative analysis using independent contrasts to show that social pressures have favored an extension in the proportion of time primates spend as juveniles.
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One key function of juvenility is learning.
“Whatever the original selective pressures driving the evolution of juvenility (see Janson and van Schaik, 1993; Kaplan et al., 2000; Pereira and Fairbanks, 1993; Joffe, 1997), evolutionary theorists agree that one of the key functions of this delayed growth phase is learning.”
From The Adaptive Calibration Model of stress responsivity (2011) · cites this paper as Joffe, 1997
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- Authors
- Joffe, T. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Joffe, Tracey H.
- Venue
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1997-06
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 593-605
- ISSN
- 0047-2484 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1993879627
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 6.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Human Evolution (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- social learning, social skills, social selection, primate social behavior, learning period
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Animals, Brain, Learning, Life Expectancy, Primates, Sexual Maturation, Social Behavior, Species Specificity
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