Multilevel animal societies can emerge from cultural transmission

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cantor, Maurício ^a   Shoemaker, Lauren G ^b   Cabral, Reniel B ^c,d   Flores, César O ^e   Varga, Melinda ^f   Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of the Philippines ^*  (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SYMPATRY; VOCALIZATION; WHALE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPERM WHALE; STATISTICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; MARKOV CHAIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; PHYSETERIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPERM WHALE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84941070092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9091     Document Type: Article

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