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Attempts to relate interspecific differences in social organisation among primates to gross differences in habitat or diet type have been largely unsuccessful. This is probably partly because distantly related species have adapted to similar ecological situations in different ways and partly because much finer ecological differences are important.
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Clutton-Brock, T. Primate social organisation and ecology. Nature 250, 539–542 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250539a0
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