Abstract
Genetic models of subdivided populations usually assume highly simplified fixed population structures. Studies of social groups of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) indicate that populations of these monkeys possess complex, distinctive, highly dynamic population structures. The lack of correspondence between assumptions of ordinary genetic models and observations on real monkey populations seems sufficiently great that existing genetic models for subdivided populations cannot serve as theories for monkey populations. It is suggested that more adequate representations of genetic structures of populations of social species will be built with formalisms borrowed from linguistic and computer sciences.
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