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Primate social group sizes exhibit a regular scaling pattern with natural attractors
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Primate groups vary considerably in size across species. Nonetheless, the distribution of mean species group size has a regular scaling pattern with preferred sizes approximating 2.5, 5, 15, 30 and 50 individuals (although strepsirrhines lack the latter two), with a scaling ratio of approximately 2.5 similar to that observed in human social networks. These clusters appear to form distinct social grades that are associated with rapid evolutionary change, presumably in response to intense envir...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0490
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Funding
+ European Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Dunbar, R
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Advanced Investigator Grant
Royal Society
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Biology Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 20170490
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-22
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1744-957X
- ISSN:
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1744-9561
- Pmid:
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29343560
- Source identifiers:
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821345
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- English
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pubs:821345
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- pubs:821345
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-04
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- Dunbar et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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