The requirements of living in social groups, and forming and maintaining social relationships
are hypothesized to be one of the major drivers behind the evolution of cognitive abilities …

Animal social networks are descriptions of social structure which, aside from their intrinsic
interest for understanding sociality, can have significant bearing across many fields 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 …

Understanding the functional links between social structure and population processes is a
central aim of evolutionary ecology. Multiple types of interactions can be represented by …

Strong relationships exist between social connections and information transmission [1–9],
where individuals' network position plays a key role in whether or not they acquire novel …

Cumulative cultural evolution has been claimed to be a uniquely human phenomenon
pivotal to the biological success of our species. One plausible condition for cumulative …

Little is known about how multiple social learning strategies interact and how organisms
integrate both individual and social information. Here we combine, in a wild primate, an …

An individual's ecological environment affects their mortality risk, which in turn has
fundamental consequences for life-history evolution. In many species, social relationships …

Abstract Development of a widely accepted vocabulary referring to various types of social
learning has made important contributions to decades of progress in analyzing the role of …

Although social learning capabilities are taxonomically widespread, demonstrating that
freely interacting animals (whether wild or captive) rely on social learning has proved …