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 relationships promote health and wellbeing. Brain regions regulating social behavior
continue to develop throughout adolescence, as teens learn to navigate their social …

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 …

The Norway rat has important impacts on our life. They are amongst the most used research
subjects, resulting in ground-breaking advances. At the same time, wild rats live in close …

Behavioural traits are characterized by their labile expression: behavioural responses can,
in principle, be up-and down-regulated in response to moment-to-moment changes in …

The traditional and relatively narrow-focused research on ape–human comparisons has
recently been significantly extended by investigations of different clades of animals …

The principles of game theory apply to a wide range of topics in biology. This book presents
the central concepts in evolutionary game theory and provides an authoritative and up-to …

Influential theories of the evolution of cognition and cooperation posit that tracking
information about others allows individuals to adjust their social associations strategically, re …

Social interactions are central to most animals and have a fundamental impact upon the
phenotype of an individual. Social behavior (social interactions among conspecifics) …

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