Preprints
Filtering by Subject: Integrative Biology
Communicative roots of complex sociality and cognition
Published: 2019-06-21
Subjects: Animal Sciences, Biology, Integrative Biology, Life Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mammals living in more complex social groups typically have large brains for their body size and many researchers have proposed that the primary driver of the increase in brain size through primate and hominin evolution are the selection pressures associated with sociality. Many mammals, and especially primates, use flexible signals that show a high degree of voluntary control and these signals [...]
Withdrawn: New research frameworks in the study of chimpanzee and gorilla sociality and communication
Published: 2019-06-19
Subjects: Biology, Integrative Biology, Life Sciences
Group size in primates is strongly correlated with brain size, but exactly what makes larger groups more ‘socially complex’ than smaller groups is still poorly understood. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) are among our closest living relatives and are excellent model species to investigate patterns of sociality and social complexity in primates, and to inform models of [...]