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SUMMARY:Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation\, territoriality and so
 cial support in our evolutionary cousins - Robin E Morrison (Department of
  Archaeology\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20190124T131000Z
DTEND:20190124T140000Z
UID:TALK117313@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Miguel Anaya
DESCRIPTION:Western gorillas are one of our closest evolutionary relatives
 . They have a similar social structure to our own\, living in family group
 s with overlapping ranges and therefore represent an important model syste
 m for understanding human social evolution. Despite this\, very little is 
 known about the large-scale social structure of this species. I investigat
 ed community structure in two western lowland gorilla populations visiting
  forest clearings in Republic of Congo\, demonstrating that these populati
 ons showed a multi-level kin-based social structure\, previously thought t
 o be unique to humans within apes. I then used camera trap monitoring of g
 orillas across their ranges to reconstruct movement patterns\, using ecolo
 gical modelling to test hypotheses relating to territoriality\, competitio
 n and cooperation within gorilla society. I will discuss what these findin
 gs add to our knowledge of this species and how they alter our understandi
 ng of the evolution of human social complexity and the basis on which mode
 rn human society is built. 
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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