The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups

By Joan B. Silk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Facing the situation: Testing a biosocial contingency model of leadership in intergroup relations using masculine and feminine faces (2012, background): “Humans are among a number of animals that have evolved a group living strategy (Silk, 2007).”
The ‘strength of weak ties’ among female baboons: fitness-related benefits of social bonds (2017, neutral): “Social behaviour is therefore argued to be evolutionarily adaptive, with the most reproductively successful animals being those that are best able to navigate their social environment (Brent et al., 2013; Silk, 2007).”
Social competition and its consequences in female mammals (2013, background): “…studies of 83 the effects of increasing group size, which commonly depress fecundity and 84 increase mortality of females and their offspring (Clutton-BrockAlbon & Guinness 85 1982, Clutton-Brock 2002, Clutton-BrockHodge & Flower 2008, van Schaik et al. 86 1983, Silk 2007a, Clutton-Brock 2009b).”
Gender Differences in Leadership Role Occupancy: The Mediating Role of Power Motivation (2014, background): “Female mating success and survival, on the other hand, were more strongly dependent on the ability to maintain supportive social networks (Silk 2007).”
Fitness consequences of group living in the degu Octodon degus, a plural breeder rodent with communal care (2009, background): “In plural breeders without communal care (Silk 2007), the fitness consequences of group living are most closely related to the costs (e.g. competition for resources) and benefits (e.g. reduced predation risk) of group size per se.”
A Comparison of Social Organization in Asian Elephants and African Savannah Elephants (2012, background): “Differences in productivity create different levels of competition among conspecifics, a strong driver of social patterns even intraspecifically (Silk 2007), as well as among species with similar mating systems and diet requirements as is the case in this study (Chapman and Chapman 2000).”
Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network (2010, background): “Furthermore, it appears that females may receive substantial fitness benefits from these targeted kin interactions (reviewed in Silk 2007).”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “The factors that shape these dynamic groups are not well known, but they likely involve an interaction between the costs and benefits of social living and ecological constraints (Alexander 1974; Komdeur 2006) associated with individual characteristics, such as sex, age, reproductive condition, and r”
Social play in captive wolves (Canis lupus): not only an immature affair (2009, background): “…as an evolutionarily advantageous state, in which members derive the benefits of cooperation (protection from predators, mate choice, collective rearing of offspring, and territory defence) balanced by the costs of competition for limiting resources (Parrish & EdelsteinKeshet, 1999; Silk, 2007).”
Social bonds predict future cooperation in male Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus (2011, background): “Nevertheless, affiliative behaviour between unrelated males can reduce agonistic tension (e.g. Judge & de Waal 1997; Paul et al. 2000), increase tolerance (e.g. Silk 2007) and is related to coalitionary support (Feh 1999; Schino 2007).”