Understanding how social systems evolved requires knowing the ancestral social organization. Here, we tested the assumption that the first placental mammals were exclusively solitary. Using a comprehensive dataset of 726 placental species…
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | Evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Topics: Evolution- A unifying framework for the evolution of metazoa and social insects, two major evolutionary transitions
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