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| Title |
Evolutionary Significance of the Role of Family Units in a Broader Social System
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| Published in |
Scientific Reports, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1038/srep03608 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bradford R. Greening, Nina H. Fefferman |
| Abstract |
Indirect benefits to individual fitness in social species can be influenced by a variety of behavioral factors. Behaviors which support the fitness of kin provide indirect benefits in the form of evolutionary success of relatives. Further, individuals may obtain additional indirect benefits via participation in a well-organized social environment. Building on previous models of selfishly-motivated self-organizing societies, we explore the evolutionary trade-off between inclusion and maintenance of family groups and the ability of a population to sustain a well-organized social structure. Our results demonstrate that the interactions between Hamiltonian and organizationally-based indirect benefits to individual fitness interact to favor certain types of social affiliation traits. Conversely, we show how particular types of social affiliation dynamics may provide selective pressures to limit the size of behaviorally-defined familial groups. We present the first studies of the evolution of social complexity differentiating affiliation behavior between kin and non-kin. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Greece | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 21 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
| Professor | 2 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 10% |
| Other | 4 | 19% |
| Unknown | 3 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 3 | 14% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 10% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 33% |
| Unknown | 5 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 January 2014.
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