Measuring social complexity

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 203-209

  Bergman, Thore J ^a   Beehner, Jacinta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Differentiated relationships; Evolution; Intelligence; Social complexity hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; CORRELATION; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LITERATURE REVIEW; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84939417494     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.02.018     Document Type: Article

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