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The social role of touch in humans and primates: behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms
- Abstract:
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Grooming is a widespread activity throughout the animal kingdom, but in primates (including humans) social grooming, or allo-grooming (the grooming of others), plays a particularly important role in social bonding which, in turn, has a major impact on an individual's lifetime reproductive fitness. New evidence from comparative brain analyses suggests that primates have social relationships of a qualitatively different kind to those found in other animal species, and I suggest that, in primate...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews Journal website
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 260-268
- Publication date:
- 2010-02-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0149-7634
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:3309
- Deposit date:
- 2010-02-08
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- Elsevier Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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