From an evolutionary perspective, followership is puzzling because it is not clear why
individuals would relinquish their autonomy and set aside their personal goals to follow …

Existing approaches within leadership studies often share a bias towards industrialized
societies and lack broader cross-cultural and ethological reference. Meanwhile, cross …

From the popularity of authoritarian political leaders to the under-representation of women in
boardrooms, leadership is an important theme in current human social affairs. Leadership is …

A long-standing assumption in social behavior is that leadership incurs costs as well as
benefits, and this tradeoff can result in diversified social roles in groups. The major cost of …

We deploy the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of
the following hypothesis: The emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the …

We present a general framework for modeling a wide selection of flocking scenarios under
free boundary conditions. Several variants have been considered—including examples for …

Highlights•Moving groups must reach speed consensus to retain cohesion and grouping
benefits.•We investigated speed in solo and group flights of homing pigeons using …

Animal groups are often composed of individuals that vary according to behavioral,
morphological, and internal state parameters. Understanding the importance of such …

The social decisions that individuals make, in terms of where to move, who to interact with
and how frequently, scale up to generate social structure. Such structure has profound …

Collective movements are essential for maintaining group cohesion. However, group
members can have different optimal departure times, depending on individual, social and …