Yellow-bellied marmots reside in colonies with a single dominant male
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Pleasant teams of marmots may assist settle a permanent debate in evolution – whether or not the traits of a bunch might be extra vital to a person’s possibilities of survival than the traits of that particular person. An evaluation of their behaviour is the primary proof in wild animals for this evolutionary thought, generally known as multilevel choice
“What we discovered is that the group traits are beneath simply as robust choice as the person traits, if not barely stronger,” says Conner Philson then on the College of California, Los…
