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Social inheritance of avoidances shapes the structure of animal social networks
Behavioral Ecology, Vol.35(1), pp.1-8
2024
Abstract
Social structure can have significant effects on selection, affecting both individual fitness traits and population-level processes. As such, research into its dynamics and evolution has spiked in the last decade, where theoretical and computational advances in social network analysis have increased our understanding of its ecological and inheritance underpinnings. Yet, the processes that shape the formation of structure within social networks are poorly understood and the role of social avoidances unknown. Social avoidances are an alternate of social affiliation in animal societies, which, although invisible, likely play a role in shaping animal social networks. Assuming social avoidances evolve under similar constraints as affiliative behavior, we extended a previous model of social inheritance of affiliations to investigate the impact of social inheritance of avoidances on social network structure. We modeled avoidances as relationships that individuals can copy from their mothers or from their mother’s social environment and varied the degrees to which individuals inherit social affiliates and avoidances to test their combined influence on social network structure. We found that inheriting avoidances via maternal social environments made social networks less dense and more modular, thereby demonstrating how social avoidance can shape the evolution of animal social networks.
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- Title
- Social inheritance of avoidances shapes the structure of animal social networks
- Authors
- Celine H Frère (Corresponding Author) - The University of QueenslandBarbara Class (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringDominique A Potvin (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringAmiyaal Ilany (Author) - Bar-Ilan University
- Publication details
- Behavioral Ecology, Vol.35(1), pp.1-8
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1093/beheco/arad088
- ISSN
- 1465-7279; 1045-2249
- Copyright note
- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Data Availability
- Analyses reported in this article can be reproduced using the scripts provided by Frère et al. (2023)
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99971185902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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