Social complexity has been one of the recent emerging topics in the study of animal and
human societies, but the concept remains both poorly defined and understood. In this paper …

Animal societies are shaped both by social processes and by the physical environment in
which social interactions take place. While many studies take the observed patterns of inter …

Variation in communicative complexity has been conceptually and empirically attributed to
social complexity, with animals living in more complex social environments exhibiting more …

We argue that the study of social complexity can follow two different approaches, based on
how it is seen from the outside or on how it is experienced from within. Recent focus has …

Purpose The novel coronavirus (nCoV) pandemic, and the challenges of social distancing,
proffer a unique opportunity to re-explore the role of social network support in …

While there is no consensus about the definition of complexity, it is widely accepted that the
ability to produce uncertainty is the most prominent characteristic of complex systems. We …

Age-related changes in the patterns of local relatedness (kinship dynamics) can be a
significant selective force shaping the evolution of life history and social behaviour. In …

Animal and human societies exhibit extreme diversity in the size, composition and cohesion
of their social units, in the patterning of sex-specific reproductive skew, in the nature of …

We tested the social complexity hypothesis which posits that animals living in complex social
environments should use complex communication systems. We focused on two components …

Comparative study of the social systems of macaques has revealed correlated variations
between species in multiple social traits such as the asymmetry of dominance relationships …