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Social dynamics and cooperation: The case of nonhuman primates and its implications for human behavior.

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Matemáticases
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC)es
dc.contributor.authorCronin, Katherine A.
dc.contributor.authorSánchez, Angel
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-06T09:31:19Z
dc.date.available2015-07-06T09:31:19Z
dc.date.issued2012-06
dc.description.abstractThe social factors that influence cooperation have remained largely uninvestigated but have the potential to explain much of the variation in cooperative behavior observed in the natural world. We show here that certain dimensions of the social environment, namely the size of the social group, the degree of social tolerance expressed, the structure of the dominance hierarchy, and the patterns of dispersal, may influence the emergence and stability of cooperation in predictable ways. Furthermore, the social environment experienced by a species over evolutionary time will have shaped their cognition to provide certain strengths and strategies that are beneficial in their species' social world. These cognitive adaptations will in turn impact the likelihood of cooperating in a given social environment. Experiments with one primate species, the cottontop tamarin, illustrate how social dynamics may influence emergence and stability of cooperative behavior in this species. We then take a more general viewpoint and argue that the hypotheses presented here require further experimental work and the addition of quantitative modeling to obtain a better understanding of how social dynamics influence the emergence and stability of cooperative behavior in complex systems. We conclude by pointing out subsequent specific directions for models and experiments that will allow relevant advances in the understanding of the emergence of cooperation.en
dc.description.sponsorshipÁngel Sánchez was partially supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) through grants MOSAICO, PRODIEVO and Complexity-NET RESINEE, and by Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) through grant MODELICO-CM.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationAdvances in Complex Systems 15 (2012) Suppl. 1-1250066, pp. 1-21en
dc.identifier.doi10.1142/S021952591250066X
dc.identifier.issn0219-5259
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationissueSuppl. 1 (1250066)en
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage21
dc.identifier.publicationtitleAdvances in complex systemsen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume15
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/21302
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000010111
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWorld Scientific Publishing Companyen
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. S2009/ESP-1691/MODELICO
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. FIS2011-22449/PRODIEVO
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. FIS2006-01485/MOSAICO
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S021952591250066X
dc.rights© 2012 World Scientific Publishing Company
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.ecienciaTelecomunicacioneses
dc.subject.otherSocial behavioren
dc.subject.otherNonhuman primatesen
dc.subject.otherCooperationen
dc.subject.otherCottontop tamarinsen
dc.subject.otherSaguinus oedipusen
dc.subject.otherComplex systemsen
dc.titleSocial dynamics and cooperation: The case of nonhuman primates and its implications for human behavior.en
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