Fission‐Fusion Dynamics

By Filippo Aureli, C. Schaffner, Christophe Boesch, S. Bearder, J. Call, Colin A. Chapman, Richard C. Connor, A. Fiore, Robin I. M. Dunbar, S. Henzi and 9 more. Current Anthropology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social dynamics among females and their influence on social structure in an East African chimpanzee community (2013, positive): “Like other species exhibiting fissionefusion social systems, chimpanzees provide a natural framework for analysing variation in social relationships (Aureli et al. 2008).”
Where Next? Group Coordination and Collective Decision Making by Primates (2011, background): “The same embedded leadership principle may account for the prominence of certain individuals leading group behaviors in social systems with high fission– fusion dynamics (Aureli et al. 2008).”
Reciprocal Altruism in Primates: Partner Choice, Cognition, and Emotions (2009, background): “Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) living in groups with high levels of fission–fusion dynamics (Aureli et al., 2008; Holekamp et al., 1997) preferentially joined subgroups containing higher‐ranking animals in exchange for increased tolerance (Smith et al.”
Greetings promote cooperation and reinforce social bonds among spotted hyaenas (2011, background): “Although this lifestyle permits individuals to reduce conflicts of interest (Conradt & Roper 2005), it also imposes a unique set of challenges upon group members that often experience long separations from one another (Aureli et al. 2008).”
Fission–fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences (2013, background): “…relationships are of particular interest in populations with fissione fusion dynamics, in which individuals temporarily associate so that group membership and group size change frequently (e.g. Brager 1999; Cross et al. 2005; Bashaw et al. 2007; Smith et al. 2007; reviewed by Aureli et al. 2008).”
Socioecological adaptations by chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, inhabiting an anthropogenically impacted habitat (2012, background): “…anthropogenic influence throughout Africa (Tweheyo & Lye 2005; McLennan 2008; Hockings & Humle 2009; Hockings et al. 2009), and (3) exhibit fissionefusion dynamics (Nishida 1968) which allows responses to social and ecological change to be assessed over very short timescales (Aureli et al. 2008).”
Are badges of status adaptive in large complex primate groups (2015, methodology): “For species with fission–fusion dynamics we used community size (Aureli et al., 2008).”
Evolution of Cooperation among Mammalian Carnivores and Its Relevance to Hominin Evolution (2012, background): “Even within the most stable groups of carnivores, intense competition disrupts grouping behavior (reviewed by Aureli et al. 2008; Holekamp, Boydston, and Smale 2000; Smith et al. 2008).”
A framework for studying social complexity (2019, background): “crease in spatio-temporal cohesion, and thus an increasing potential for fission-fusion dynamics (Aureli et al. 2008; Couzin and Laidre 2009), because more individuals have”
Dispersal, philopatry, and the role of fission‐fusion dynamics in bottlenose dolphins (2013, background): “…appears to consist of overlapping social networks that extend throughout the bay (Smolker et al. 1992, Connor and Mann 2006), with groups changing temporally, spatially, and compositionally (i.e., high fission-fusion dynamics: Aureli et al. 2008) in an open community (Smolker et al. 1992).”