Resource availability and adjustment of social behaviour influence patterns of inequality and productivity across societies.

ABSTRACT: Animal societies vary widely in the diversity of social behaviour and the distribution of reproductive shares among their group members. It has been shown that individual condition can lead to divergent social roles and that social specialisation can cause an exacerbation or a mitigation of the inequality among group members within a society. This work, however, has not investigated cases in which resource availability varies between different societies, a factor that is thought to explain variation in the level of cooperation and the disparities in reproductive shares within each social group. In this study, I focus on how resource availability mediates the expression of social behaviour and how this, in turn, mediates inequality both within and between groups. I find that when difference

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues AMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173167 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature