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dc.contributor.authorBrent, LJN
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Lambides, A
dc.contributor.authorPlatt, ML
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-25T10:59:22Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-17
dc.description.abstractTwo decades of research suggest social relationships have a common evolutionary basis in humans and other gregarious mammals. Critical to the support of this idea is growing evidence that mortality is influenced by social integration, but when these effects emerge and how long they last is mostly unknown. Here, we report in adult female macaques that the impact of number of close adult female relatives, a proxy for social integration, on survival is not experienced uniformly across the life course; prime-aged females with a greater number of relatives had better survival outcomes compared with prime-aged females with fewer relatives, whereas no such effect was found in older females. Group size and dominance rank did not influence this result. Older females were less frequent targets of aggression, suggesting enhanced experience navigating the social landscape may obviate the need for social relationships in old age. Only one study of humans has found age-based dependency in the association between social integration and survival. Using the largest dataset for any non-human animal to date, our study extends support for the idea that sociality promotes survival and suggests strategies employed across the life course change along with experience of the social world.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by NIMH grants no. R01-MH096875 and R01-MH089484 to M.L.P. and L.J.N.B., and by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to L.J.N.B. The CPRC is supported by grant no. 2P40OD012217 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) of the National Institutes of Health.en_GB
dc.identifier.citation, Vol. 284, pp. 20170515 - 20170515en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rspb.2017.0515
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/27697
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherRoyal Societyen_GB
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dc.rights© 2017 The Author(s) http://royalsocietypublishing.org/licence Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.en_GB
dc.subjectsocial relationshipsen_GB
dc.subjectlongevityen_GB
dc.subjectsocial connectednessen_GB
dc.subjectlife courseen_GB
dc.subjectageingen_GB
dc.titleFamily network size and survival across the lifespan of female macaquesen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Royal Society via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesen_GB


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