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Tag: 2019.rethinking

Posted on 2019-10-292019-10-29

Story behind the paper: Rethinking animal social complexity

This paper started out as an invited talk to the 2018 Animal Behavior meeting in Milwaukee Wisconsin for a symposium organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking“. … [Read full details]

Posted on 2019-08-012019-10-29

Summary of “Rethinking animal social complexity”

The SFI team did a nice write-up of my recent paper.

From the Santa Fe Institute:

Three concepts from complexity could play a big role in social animal research

AUGUST 1, 2019

From bees to birds to humans, the animal kingdom is full of organisms that have evolved complex social structures to solve specific problems they encounter.

… [Read full details]

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