Multilevel organisation of animal sociality

CC Grueter, X Qi, D Zinner, T Bergman, M Li… - Trends in ecology & …, 2020‏ - cell.com
Multilevel societies (MLSs), stable nuclear social units within a larger collective
encompassing multiple nested social levels, occur in several mammalian lineages. Their …

The social significance of subtle signals

R Bliege Bird, E Ready, EA Power - Nature human behaviour, 2018‏ - nature.com
Acts of prosociality, such as donating to charity, are often analysed in a similar way to acts of
conspicuous advertising; both involve costly signals revealing hidden qualities that increase …

Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling

D Smith, P Schlaepfer, K Major, M Dyble… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Storytelling is a human universal. From gathering around the camp-fire telling tales of
ancestors to watching the latest television box-set, humans are inveterate producers and …

Cooperation across social borders in bonobos

L Samuni, M Surbeck - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Cooperation beyond familial and group boundaries is core to the functioning of human
societies, yet its evolution remains unclear. To address this, we examined grooming …

Women's subsistence networks scaffold cultural transmission among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin

H Jang, CT Ross, AH Boyette, KRL Janmaat… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
In hunter-gatherer societies, women's subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning
and children's social learning but are understudied relative to men's activities. To …

Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution

AB Migliano, F Battiston, S Viguier, AE Page… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
Although multilevel sociality is a universal feature of human social organization, its
functional relevance remains unclear. Here, we investigated the effect of multilevel sociality …

Social bonds facilitate cooperative resource sharing in wild chimpanzees

L Samuni, A Preis, A Mielke… - … of the Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Why share when access to benefits is uncertain is crucial to our understanding of the
evolution of humans' extensive cooperation. Here, we investigated some of the different …

Fine-scale collective movements reveal present, past and future dynamics of a multilevel society in Przewalski's horses

K Ozogány, V Kerekes, A Fülöp, Z Barta… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Studying animal societies needs detailed observation of many individuals, but technological
advances offer new opportunities in this field. Here, we present a state-of-the-art drone …

The social dynamics of settling down

GM Feinman, JE Neitzel - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
For more than 150 years, global perspectives on the mobile to sedentary transition have
been framed by deeply entrenched categorical assumptions that have effectively blinded …

Oral microbiomes from hunter‐gatherers and traditional farmers reveal shifts in commensal balance and pathogen load linked to diet

F Lassalle, M Spagnoletti, M Fumagalli… - Molecular …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Maladaptation to modern diets has been implicated in several chronic disorders. Given the
higher prevalence of disease such as dental caries and chronic gum diseases in …