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Network Structure and Social Complexity in Primates

2018-06-22

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Primates use social grooming to create and maintain coalitions. Because of this, individuals focus their time on a small number of individuals, and this means that in many cases group networks are not fully connected. I use data on primate grooming networks to show that three different social grades can be differentiated in terms of network structuring. These grades seem to arise from a glass ceiling imposed on gr...

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7e38dfac-538f-5822-9661-b12dd91edad6
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10.1101/354068
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