Social inheritance can explain the structure of animal social networks

Social networks have important implications to a variety of ecological and evolutionary processes. Here, Ilany and Akçay develop a social network model and show that inheritance of social contacts leads to networks with properties observed in species such as sleepy lizards and spotted hyenas.

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Autores principales: Amiyaal Ilany, Erol Akçay
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Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/b0237dd38c2d4ec09f63bbacb5da3d50
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Sumario:Social networks have important implications to a variety of ecological and evolutionary processes. Here, Ilany and Akçay develop a social network model and show that inheritance of social contacts leads to networks with properties observed in species such as sleepy lizards and spotted hyenas.