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Beyond the biotic and abiotic attributes of the habitat, the social behavior and the social experiences of individuals during their infancy are central for the survival of many primate species in the wild. The social organization of groups within primate species can also influence the extent to which a species is endangered by man-made environmental changes. The notable characteristics, for example, of some macaque species, baboons, and vervets are their adaptiveness to human changes of their habitats, whereas this seems much less so in the apes. These differences in adaptive success are considered to be a consequence of the social organization (Hall, 1968).
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Tomiuk, J., Loeschcke, V. (1994). A: The genetic monitoring of primate populations for their conservation. In: Loeschcke, V., Jain, S.K., Tomiuk, J. (eds) Conservation Genetics. EXS, vol 68. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8510-2_32
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