Animal groups are often organized hierarchically, with dominant individuals gaining priority
access to resources and reproduction over subordinate individuals. Initial dominance …

Social network analysis provides a broad and complex perspective on animal sociality that
is widely applicable to almost any species. Recent applications demonstrate the utility of …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Social interactions are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom. A variety of ecological and
evolutionary processes are dependent on social interactions, such as movement, disease …

Hierarchy is a reality of group life, for humans and for most other group-living species.
However, there remains considerable debate about whether and when hierarchy can …

Many animal social structures are organized hierarchically, with some individuals
monopolizing resources. Dominance hierarchies have received great attention from …

The first generation of research on animal social networks was primarily aimed at
introducing the concept of social networks to the fields of animal behaviour and behavioural …

Highlights•We describe a novel paradigm to study the temporal dynamics of mouse
dominance hierarchies.•Mice reliably form significantly linear and stable dominance …

Social status is a critical factor determining health outcomes in human and nonhuman social
species. In social hierarchies with reproductive skew, individuals compete to monopolize …

Cost-benefit trade-offs for individuals participating in social behaviors are the basis for
current theories on the evolution of social behaviors and societies. However, research on …