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    Borries, Carola ...
    Primate life history data provide the foundation for comparative analyses that reconstruct life histories for extinct species, help explain dental development, and highlight the peculiar ... characteristics of our own species. However, most of the data currently available in compilations are outdated. This can lead to contradictory and incorrect results, as we demonstrated for two primate taxa where not even the very basic allometric relationship between life history traits and adult female body mass was recovered if existing compilations were used. To address these issues we began to develop a new database for the order "primates" in May 2014. To eliminate prior copying errors, every entry in the database was located (highlighted) in the original source, dimensions were standardized, and metadata for nutrient availability, offspring survival etc. included. What we are making available today (August 25, 2015) is a flat file intended to provide an overview of most components of the relational database which is written in SQL and uses MariaDB as the management system. It contains values for birth rate, gestation length (for viable infants), interbirth interval (for surviving infants), litter size, maturation age (mostly age at first reproduction), maximum lifespan, survival (to one year of age), and weaning (mostly the cessation of nipple contact). The primate species included at present are random and most entries for a given species are not yet complete. It will take an estimated two more years before the complete database together with a self-explanatory user interface can be made publicly available.
    Type of material - web site ; adult, serious
    Publication and manufacture - [London] : Figshare, 2015
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 38944773

    Link(s):

    https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1518614.v1

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