Social complexity has been one of the recent emerging topics in the study of animal and
human societies, but the concept remains both poorly defined and understood. In this paper …

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 …

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 …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Recent data suggest that the human body is not such a neatly self-sufficient island after all. It
is more like a super-complex ecosystem containing trillions of bacteria and other …

While the study of networks has grown exponentially in the past decade and is now having
an impact on how archaeologists study ancient societies, its emergence in the field has …

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 …

Mobile hunter-gatherers are often characterized as living in small communities where
mobility and group size are products of the environmentally determined distribution of …

Humans exhibit a remarkable capacity for cooperation among genetically unrelated
individuals. Yet, human cooperation is neither universal, nor stable. Instead, cooperation is …