Practice random acts of aggression and senseless acts of intimidation: The logic of status contests in social groups

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Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, unknown): “…37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Review Copy FINAL DRAFT/Clutton-Brock and Huchard 10 of subordinates, discourage retaliatory attacks and, in extreme cases, cause them to 238 leave the group (Dunbar & Dunbar 1977, Silk 2002, Stockley & Bro-Jorgensen 239 2011).”
The energetics of male–male endurance rivalry in free-ranging rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta (2011, background): “It has been suggested that such random attacks are beneficial to attackers because they cause chronic activation of the stress response in victims, leading to health and fertility problems for lower-ranked individuals (Silk 2002).”
Formidable females and the power trajectories of socially integrated male vervet monkeys (2017, background): “, 2013), and are susceptible to the rank loss associated with ‘winnereloser’ effects (Chase, Tovey, SpanglerMartin, & Manfredonia, 2002; Franz & Alberts, 2015; Silk, 2002).”
Attachment and Culture (2013, background): “Alloparents enhance their inclusive fitness by helping kin (Trivers, 1985; van IJzendoorn, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & Sagi-Schwartz, 2006) and cooperative breeding systems enhance the fitness of its members by reducing birth intervals, raising maternal fertility, and promoting infant survival in primat”