The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has garnered interest recently as a powerful
model for the future of neuroscience research. Much of this excitement has centered on the …

Social network analysis provides a broad and complex perspective on animal sociality that
is widely applicable to almost any species. Recent applications demonstrate the utility of …

The successful adaptation and creation of sustainable entrepreneurial ventures significantly
influences the ability to create more environmentally and socially integrated economic …

Highlights•Indirect connections are heritable and predictors of fitness in some
species.•Some animals recognize and may strategically manipulate third-party …

Biologists have devoted much attention to assortative mating or homogamy, the tendency for
sexual species to mate with similar others. In contrast, there has been little theoretical work …

Highlights•Social network analysis is a tool for understanding patterns of sociality.•It is
unclear whether networks created from different techniques are comparable.•We used five …

The ultimate payoff of behaviours depends not only on their direct impact on an individual,
but also on the impact on their relatives. Local relatedness—the average relatedness of an …

Mixed-species social aggregations are common across taxa. There are two, nonexclusive,
hypotheses typically proposed to explain the formation of social groups: increased predator …

Allee effects have important implications for many aspects of basic and applied ecology. The
benefits of aggregation of conspecific individuals are central to Allee effects, which have led …

In-group favoritism is the tendency for individuals to cooperate with in-group members more
strongly than with out-group members. Similar concepts have been described across …