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Processing power limits social group size: computational evidence for the cognitive costs of sociality.
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Sociality is primarily a coordination problem. However, the social (or communication) complexity hypothesis suggests that the kinds of information that can be acquired and processed may limit the size and/or complexity of social groups that a species can maintain. We use an agent-based model to test the hypothesis that the complexity of information processed influences the computational demands involved. We show that successive increases in the kinds of information processed allow organisms t...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society
- Journal:
- Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society More from this journal
- Volume:
- 280
- Issue:
- 1765
- Pages:
- 20131151
- Publication date:
- 2013-08-01
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1471-2954
- ISSN:
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0962-8452
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English
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pubs:407790
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uuid:d77e1695-5dd4-4087-9251-ecb783afb54f
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pubs:407790
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407790
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2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- T Dávid-Barrett and R I M Dunbar
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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