Neocortex size and social network size in primates

By H. Kudo, Robin I. M. Dunbar. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Formidable females and the power trajectories of socially integrated male vervet monkeys (2017, background): “…of male residency (Henzi & Lucas, 1980) and the fact that females form the stable core of vervet groups, the fates of males and females are tied together in ways that require deeper consideration of how the social networks of adults intersect both within and between the sexes (Kudo & Dunbar, 2001).”
Social network size in humans (2003, background): “Furthermore, primate social relationships are generally characterized by intense social grooming (Dunbar 1991), and both primate group size (Dunbar 1992) and grooming clique size (Kudo and Dunbar 2001) are a function of relative neocortical volume.”
Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding (2016, positive): “…our health and wellbeing (Berkman 1984; Holt-Lunstad et al. 2010), so while our closest primate relatives have social network sizes that are directly predicted by brain size (Dunbar 1992; Kudo & Dunbar 2001), we have developed the ability to form larger networks than should be cognitively feasible.”
A comparative network analysis of social style in macaques (2011, background): “Given the different availability of potential partners, the centrality of individuals appears to decrease when group size increases (Kudo & Dunbar 2001; Lehmann & Dunbar 2009).”
Life History and Reproductive Strategies of Khao Yai Hylobates lar: Implications for Social Evolution in Apes (2008, positive): “…to develop during juvenile years (Cords and Aureli 2003; de Waal 1993; Joffe 1997), though gibbon societies with their negligible group size variation seem to lack the kind of social complexity predicted to trigger brain evolution (Aiello and Dunbar 1993; Dunbar 1992, 2003; Kudo and Dunbar 2001).”
Early social development in wild bottlenose dolphins: sex differences, individual variation and maternal influence (2008, background): “…size, social complexity and life history traits (Harvey & Clutton-Brock 1985; Sawaguchi 1990; Sawaguchi & Kudo 1990; Dunbar 1992; Gittleman 1994; Barton 1996; Marino 1996, 1998; Joffe 1997; Kudo & Dunbar 2001; Deaner et al. 2003; Ross 2003; Byrne & Corp 2004; Leigh 2004; Schultz & Dunbar 2006).”
Patterns of coalition formation and spatial association in a social carnivore, the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) (2003, background): “Group size and neocortex size are strongly correlated in primates, carnivores and cetaceans (Kudo & Dunbar, 2001), and several group-living nonprimates share some of the cognitive abilities of primates.”