Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7075, 2006, Pages 426-429

  Flack, Jessica C ^a,b   Girvan, Michelle ^a   De Waal, Frans B M ^b   Krakauer, David C ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECOLOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ASSORTATIVITY; PRIMATES; SOCIAL NICHES; SOCIAL RESOURCE NETWORKS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

NICHE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

MACACA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PRIMATES;

EID: 31444431867     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04326     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Odling-Smee, F. J., Laland, K. N. & Feldman, M. W. Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2003).
2. Flack, J. C., Krakauer, D. C. & de Waal, F. B. M. Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: A perturbation study. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 272, 1091-1099 (2005).
3. Flack, J. C., de Waal, F. B. M. & Krakauer, D. C. Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species. Am. Nat. 165, E126-E139 (2005).
4. Frank, S. Repression of competition and the evolution of cooperation. Evolution 57, 693-705 (2003).
5. Boehm, C. in Primate Behavior and Sociobiology (eds Chiarelli, A. B. & Corruccini, R. S.) 161-182 (Springer, New York, 1981).
6. Silk, J., Alberts, S. C. & Altmann, J. Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival. Science 302, 1231-1234 (2003).
7. Watts, D. J. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness 199-222 (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999).
8. Whiten, A., Horner, V. & de Waal, F. B. M. Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees. Nature 437, 737-740 (2005).
9. Hutchinson, G. E. Concluding remarks. Coldspring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 22, 415-427 (1957).
10. de Waal, F. B. M. Primates - A natural heritage of conflict resolution. Science 289, 586-590 (2000).
11. Krakauer, D. C. Genetic redundancy. In Encyclopedia of the Human Genome Vol. 2, 892-897 (Nature Publishing Group/Wiley, London, 2003).
12. Albert, R., Jeong, H. & Barabasi, A. L. Error and attack tolerance in complex networks. Nature 406, 378 (2000).
13. de Waal, F. B. M. & Luttrell, L. The formal hiearchy of rhesus monkeys: An investigation of the bared-teeth display. Am. J. Primatol. 9, 73-85 (1985).
14. Flack, J. C. & de Waal, F. B. M. in Macaque Societies: A Model for the Study of Social Organization (eds Thierry, B., Singh, M. & Kaumanns, W.) 157-181 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004).
15. Jeong, H., Mason, H. P., Barabasi, A. L. & Oltvai, Z. N. Lethality and centraility in protein networks. Nature 411, 41-42 (2001).
16. Keppel, G. Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook 329-415 (Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1991).
17. Noe, R. & Hammerstein, P. Biological markets. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10, 336-339 (1995).
18. Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. Social Network Analysis 107-108 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1994).
19. de Waal, F. B. M. Attitudinal reciprocity in food sharing among brown capuchin monkeys. Anim. Behav. 60, 253-261 (2000).
20. de Waal, F. B. M. & Luttrell, L. Mechanisms of social reciprocity in three primate species: symmetrical relationships characteristics or cognition? Ethol. Sociobiol. 9, 101-118 (1988).
21. Newman, M. E. J. Mixing patterns in networks. Phys. Rev. E 67, 026126 (2003).
22. Trivers, R. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Q. Rev. Biol. 46, 35-57 (1971).
23. Watts, D. J. & Strogatz, S. H. Collective dynamics of small-world networks. Nature 393, 1302-1305 (1998).
24. Caldecott, J. O. An Ecological and Behavioral Study of the Pigtailed Macaque (Contributions to Primatology, S. Karger, Basel, 1986).
25. Thierry, B. in Natural Conflict Resolution (eds Aureli, F. & de Waal, F. B. M.) 106-128 (Univ. California, Berkeley, 2000).
26. de Waal, F. B. M. The organization of agonistic social relationships within two captive groups of Java-monkeys (Macaca fasicularis). Z. Tierpsychol. 44, 225-282 (1977).
27. Lusseau, D. & Newman, M. Identifying the role that individual animals play in their social network. Proc. R. Soc. Lond B 271, S477-S481 (2004).
28. Freeman, L. C. A set of measures of centrality based upon betweenness. Sociometry 40, 35-41 (1977).
29. Altmann, S. Observational study of behaviour: sampling methods. Behaviour 49, 227-267 (1974).