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Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies
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Recent studies have demonstrated that human societies are hierarchically structured with a consistent scaling ratio across successive layers of the social network; each layer of the network is between three and four times the size of the preceding (smaller) grouping level. Here we show that similar relationships hold for four mammalian taxa living in multi-level social systems. For elephant (Loxodonta africana), geleda (Theropithicus geleda) and hamadryas (Papio hamadrya...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Biology Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 748-751
- Publication date:
- 2008-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1744-957X
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- English
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- ora:4100
- Deposit date:
- 2010-08-25
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- Copyright holder:
- R A Hill, R A Bentley & R I M Dunbar
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- Citation: Hills, R. A., Bentley, R. A. & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2008), 'Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies', Biology Letters 4(6)m 748-751. [Available at http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/]. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page.
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