When it comes to bonobos -- the great apes that are, with chimpanzees, humanity's closest living relatives -- mothers will literally drag their sons to females to get more grandchildren, a new study finds. Via InsideScience
-- When it comes to bonobos -- the great apes that are, with chimpanzees, humanity's closest living relatives -- mothers will literally drag their sons to females to get more grandchildren, a new study finds. As overbearing as such behavior might seem, researchers find it proves effective, boosting their sons' chance of fatherhood threefold.
"In the beginning, we didn't know who these females were, and we thought it was odd -- we wondered what business it was of theirs," said study lead author Martin Surbeck, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
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