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Jan 10, 2022 · Abstract. Dominance captures behavioural patterns found in social hierarchies that arise from agonistic interactions in which some individuals coercively exploit their control over costs and benefits to extract deference from others, often through aggression, threats and/or intimidation. Accumulating evidence points to its importance in humans ...
May 19, 2022 · As support for the idea that prestige-based status is human-specific, researchers rely upon two primary assumptions: (1) that social learning is far more important in humans than in animals and (2 ...
Challenges to dominance in humans Although we have every reason to suspect that the evolutionary processes and incentives identified by the logic of the models described above will apply to humans, identifying and studying dominance in our species poses particular challenges due to the influence of both
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The real reason humans are the dominant species. From early humans rubbing sticks together to make fire, to the fossil fuels that drove the industrial revolution, energy has played a central role ...
2.2.3 Dominance hierarchy. The dominance hierarchy of the groups of the 4 individuals was assessed following the end of the experimental trial period (Verbeek et al., 1999). During these dominance tests, the groups were presented with a small dish with waxworms, a highly preferred food item, on a feeding table in the middle of the aviary.
Jun 29, 2023 · Humans—adults and infants—and several animal species exploit this structural regularity to draw transitive inferences about unobserved dominance relationships 44,45,46,47,48,49. This capacity ...
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Jan 10, 2022 · As a result, many gaps remain in our understanding of how and why dominance hierarchies change over time and what impacts these changes have for of animal societies. Here, we highlight these gaps, discuss the challenges to addressing them, and suggest solutions to these problems and promising avenues for future research ( table 1 ).
