The macaque radiation is as old as the hominin radiation, approximately 7 million years.
After Homo, Macaca has the widest geographical range among primates, and both of these …

The notion that men are more variable than women has become embedded into scientific
thinking. For mental traits like personality, greater male variability has been partly attributed …

Conflict resolution is an essential component of primate sociality that has been studied
extensively within primate social groups, but few studies have examined how conflict …

In group-living animals relative rank positions are often associated with differences in
glucocorticoid output. During phases of social stability, when dominance positions are clear …

The dominance style concept has proven useful for understanding covariation patterns in
relationship qualities, particularly among macaques. However, the dominance styles of …

Primates live in a variety of social systems that differ in terms of spacing, grou** and
mating patterns as well as the quality of social relationships between individual members …

Conflict of interest between group members occurs in many contexts. Most common contexts
are competition for access to limited resources, such as mates or food (Darwin, 1871; …

Comparative study of the social systems of macaques has revealed correlated variations
between species in multiple social traits such as the asymmetry of dominance relationships …

Nonhuman primates show remarkable variation in several aspects of social structure. One
way to characterize this variation in the genus M acaca is through the concept of social style …

Many patterns of affiliative behaviour have been described for primates, for instance:
reciprocation and exchange of grooming, grooming others of similar rank, reconciliation of …