We review the literature on various approaches to modeling animal intergroup conflict
behavior in theoretical biology, highlight the intricacies emerging in the process of adding …

Behavioral ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and anthropologists have been long
fascinated by the existence of “monogamy” in the animal kingdom. Multiple studies have …

Group living is predicted to arise only when the fitness benefits outweigh the costs of
sociality. Group-living species—including cooperatively breeding and family-living birds and …

Social rank is positively correlated with reproductive success in numerous species, albeit
demographic factors often influence those patterns. In multimale primate species …

Asymmetries in power (the ability to influence the outcome of conflict) are ubiquitous in
social interactions because interacting individuals are rarely identical. It is well documented …

Although dominance hierarchies occur in most societies, our understanding of how these
power structures influence individual investment in cooperative and competitive behaviours …

Males living in multi-male groups display a wide range of relationships with co-resident
males, varying from high levels of competition, intolerance and avoidance to cooperation …

Researchers have surmised that the ability to obtain dominance during reproduction is
related to an individual's ability to better sequester the energy required for reproductive …

When I reached the sleep tree, the time was 5: 50 am and our friends had begun moving
already up the canopy. All 54 monkeys in the troop slept on the same tree, most of the sleep …

Social hierarchy is a pervasive element of modern societies, yet almost absent before the
advent of agriculture during the Neolithic transition. Despite evidence supporting hierarchy …