de Waal F B
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
J Comp Psychol. 1996 Jun;110(2):147-54. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.2.147.
Maternal affiliative relations may be transmitted to offspring, similar to the way in which maternal rank determines offspring rank. The development of 23 captive female rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) was followed from the day of birth until adulthood. A multivariate analysis compared relations among age peers with affiliative relations, kinship, and rank distance among mothers. Maternal relations were an excellent predictor of affiliative relations among daughters, explaining up to 64% of the variance. Much of this predictability was due to the effect of kinship. However, after this variable had been controlled, significant predictability persisted. For relations of female subjects with male peers, on the other hand, maternal relations had no significant predictive value beyond the effect of kinship. One possible explanation of these results is that young rhesus females copy maternal social preferences through a process of cultural learning.
母性亲和关系可能会传递给后代，类似于母系等级决定后代等级的方式。对23只圈养雌性恒河猴（猕猴）从出生到成年进行了跟踪观察。多变量分析比较了同龄人间的关系与母亲之间的亲和关系、亲属关系和等级距离。母亲关系是女儿间亲和关系的一个极佳预测指标，可解释高达64%的方差。这种可预测性很大程度上归因于亲属关系的影响。然而，在控制了这个变量之后，显著的可预测性仍然存在。另一方面，对于女性受试者与男性同龄人的关系，除了亲属关系的影响外，母亲关系没有显著的预测价值。这些结果的一个可能解释是，年轻的恒河猴雌性通过文化学习过程模仿母亲的社会偏好。
