The role of neuropeptides as a proximate base for (pro)social behaviour: inter- and intraspecific comparison of bonobo and chimpanzee Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
Marcel Eens
Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
Understanding the evolution of behavioural differences in closely related species is one of the major challenges in modern behavioural ecology. Recently, genetics have been more and more applied to understand how these differences come about. For example variation in genes coding for neuropeptide receptors in the brain has been linked to variation in social behaviour among different species. In terms of human sociality, our two closest living ...