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The limited impact of kinship on cooperation in wild chimpanzees

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Langergraber, Kevin E., Mitani, John C., Vigilant, Linda·2007·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.0611449104PMC PMC1876525
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The complex cooperative behavior exhibited by wild chimpanzees generates considerable theoretical and empirical interest, yet we know very little about the mechanisms responsible for its evolution. Here, we investigate the influence of kinship on the cooperative behavior of male chimpanzees living in an unusually large community at Ngogo in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Using long-term field observations and molecular genetic techniques to identify kin relations between individuals, we show that male chimpanzees clearly prefer to affiliate and cooperate with their maternal brothers in several behavioral contexts. Despite these results, additional analyses reveal that the impact of kinship is limited; paternal brothers do not selectively affiliate and cooperate, probably because they cannot be reliably recognized, and the majority of highly affiliative and cooperative dyads are actually unrelated or distantly related. These findings add to a growing body of research that indicates that animals cooperate with each other to obtain both direct and indirect fitness benefits and that complex cooperation can occur between kin and nonkin alike.

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Authors
Langergraber, K. E., Mitani, J. C., & Vigilant, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Max Planck Society (DE)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Published
2007-05-08
Volume
104
Issue
19
Pages
7786-7790
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.0611449104
PMC
PMC1876525
OpenAlex
W2102487116
Cited by
464
References
48
Citations by year
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FWCI
29.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Keywords
kinship, cooperation, chimpanzees, indirect fitness benefits, social evolution, dyadic cooperation, relatedness
MeSH terms
Animals, Pan troglodytes, Cooperative Behavior, Biological Evolution, Male, Siblings

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