Adaptations to a cold climate promoted social evolution in Asian colobine primates

Xiao-Guang Qi; Jinwei Wu; Lan Zhao; Lu Wang; Xuanmin Guang; Paul A Garber; Christopher Opie; Yuan Yuan; Runjie Diao; Gang Li; Kun Wang; Ruliang Pan; Weihong Ji; Hailu Sun; Zhi-Pang Huang; Chunzhong Xu; Arief B Witarto; Rui Jia; Chi Zhang; Cheng Deng; Qiang Qiu; Guojie Zhang; Cyril C Grueter; Dongdong Wu; Baoguo Li

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Adaptations to a cold climate promoted social evolution in Asian colobine primates

Xiao-Guang Qi^*, Jinwei Wu, Lan Zhao, Lu Wang, Xuanmin Guang, Paul A Garber, Christopher Opie, Yuan Yuan, Runjie Diao, Gang Li, Kun Wang, Ruliang Pan, Weihong Ji, Hailu Sun, Zhi-Pang Huang, Chunzhong Xu, Arief B Witarto, Rui Jia, Chi Zhang, Cheng DengQiang Qiu, Guojie Zhang, Cyril C Grueter^*, Dongdong Wu^*, Baoguo Li^*

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The biological mechanisms that underpin primate social evolution remain poorly understood. Asian colobines display a range of social organizations, which makes them good models for investigating social evolution. By integrating ecological, geological, fossil, behavioral, and genomic analyses, we found that colobine primates that inhabit colder environments tend to live in larger, more complex groups. Specifically, glacial periods during the past 6 million years promoted the selection of genes involved in cold-related energy metabolism and neurohormonal regulation. More-efficient dopamine and oxytocin pathways developed in odd-nosed monkeys, which may have favored the prolongation of maternal care and lactation, increasing infant survival in cold environments. These adaptive changes appear to have strengthened interindividual affiliation, increased male-male tolerance, and facilitated the stepwise aggregation from independent one-male groups to large multilevel societies.

Original language	English
Article number	eabl8621
Number of pages	12
Journal	Science
Volume	380
Issue number	6648
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8621
Publication status	Published - 2 Jun 2023

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Qi, X.-G., Wu, J., Zhao, L., Wang, L., Guang, X., Garber, P. A., Opie, C., Yuan, Y., Diao, R., Li, G., Wang, K., Pan, R., Ji, W., Sun, H., Huang, Z.-P., Xu, C., Witarto, A. B., Jia, R., Zhang, C., ... Li, B. (2023). Adaptations to a cold climate promoted social evolution in Asian colobine primates. Science, 380(6648), Article eabl8621. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8621

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