Social inheritance of avoidances shapes the structure of animal social networks.

ABSTRACT: Social structure can have significant effects on selection, affecting both individual fitness traits and population-level processes. As such, research into its dynamics and evolution has spiked in the last decade, where theoretical and computational advances in social network analysis have increased our understanding of its ecological and inheritance underpinnings. Yet, the processes that shape the formation of structure within social networks are poorly understood and the role of social avoidances unknown. Social avoidances are an alternate of social affiliation in animal societies, which, although invisible, likely play a role in shaping animal social networks. Assuming social avoidances evolve under similar constraints as affiliative behavior, we extended a previous model of social inhe

SUBMITTER: Frere CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10773302 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature