%0 Journal Article
%A Kazem, Anahita J. N.
%A Barth, Yvonne
%A Pfefferle, Dana
%A Kulik, Lars
%A Widdig, Anja
%+ Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Parent-offspring facial resemblance increases with age in rhesus macaques : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-FE0E-3
%R 10.1098/rspb.2018.1208
%7 2018-09-12
%D 2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Kin recognition is a key ability which facilitates the acquisition of inclusive<br>fitness benefits and enables optimal outbreeding. In primates, phenotype<br>matching is considered particularly important for the recognition of patrili-<br>neal relatives, as information on paternity is unlikely to be available via<br>social familiarity. Phenotypic cues to both paternal and maternal relatedness<br>exist in the facial features of humans and other primates. However, theoreti-<br>cal models suggest that in systems with uncertainty parentage it may be<br>adaptive for offspring to conceal such cues when young, in order to avoid<br>potential costs of being discriminated against by unrelated adults. Using<br>experienced human raters, we demonstrate in a computer-based task that<br>detection of parent–offspring resemblances in the faces of rhesus macaques<br>(<br>Macaca mulatta<br>) increases significantly with offspring age. Moreover, this<br>effect is specific to information about kinship, as raters were extremely suc-<br>cessful at discriminating individuals even among the youngest animals.<br>To our knowledge, this is the first evidence in non-humans for the<br>age-dependent expression of visual cues used in kin recognition.
%K kin recognition; phenotype matching; facial similarity; paternity uncertainity; ontogeny 
%J Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 
%O Proc. R. Soc. B
%V 285
%N 1886
%] 20181208
%I Royal Society 
%C London
%@ 0962-8452