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When social groups of free-ranging rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, undergo fission, they usually divide between genealogies.
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If a genealogy divides, it is usually between an eldest daughter with her family and the rest of the genealogy.
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The separation of the eldest daughter from her genealogy is the extreme case of peripheralization of low-ranking females among rhesus monkeys.
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The founders of new groups that disperse from the former home range are likely to be subordinate individuals in the parent group, as predicted by Christian (1970).
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The dispersal of families as units is likely to lead to ‘lineal effects’ (Neel and Salzano, 1967) in the genetical substructure of the population.
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Chepko-Sade, B.D., Sade, D.S. Patterns of group splitting within matrilineal kinship groups. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 5, 67–86 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00302696
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