Social dominance is usually viewed from the perspective of intragroup competition over
access to limited resources. The present paper, while not denying the importance of such …

The status hierarchy is fundamental in the lives of male chimpanzees. This study describes
the dominance interactions and social status among adult male chimpanzees of the Sonso …

Recent challenges to the social dominance theory as applied to monkeys include
unwarranted generalizations. Observations on wild Barbary macaques Macaca sylvanus …

Nonhuman primates commonly compete for mates, physical resources and dominance
status. Competition is manifest in one‐to‐one contests or in more complex, multipartite …

A deductively obtained model concerning the factors that determine male social
relationships within the framework of primate social organization is discussed in the light of …

The degree to which cooperative behavior is kin‐correlated in different primate species is
reviewed. The mechanisms whereby individuals might recognize related conspecifics are …

Dominance relationships in primate societies are generally inferred by analyses of agonistic
interactions. This aspect of social organization is so striking in macaque and baboon …

Social relationships in nonhuman primates result from investments that individuals make
while pursuing fitness-maximizing strategies. These strategies sometimes include social …

Dominance is a common, although not universal, characteristic of social relationships in
nonhuman primates. One individual is dominant to another when it consistently wins the …

Dominance has been assumed to be a quality of overwhelming social importance but
satisfactory definitions and measures have not been devised. As an indication of …