Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities
Social interactions among conspecifics are a fundamental and adaptively significant component of the biology of numerous species. Such interactions give rise to group living as well as many of the complex forms of cooperation and conflict that occur within animal groups. Although previous conceptual...
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| author | Daniel T Blumstein Luis Ebensperger Luis Ebensperger Loren Hayes Rodrigo A Vásquez Todd H Ahern Joseph R Burger Adam G Dolezal Andy Dosmann Gabriela G Mariscal Breanna N Harris Emilio A Herrera Eileen A Lacey Jill Mateo Lisa McGraw Daniel Olazábal Marilyn Ramenofsky Dustin R Rubenstein Samuel A Sakhai Wendy Saltzman Cristina Sainz-Borgo Mauricio Soto-Gamboa Monica L Stewart Tina W Wey John C Wingfield Larry J Young |
| author_facet | Daniel T Blumstein Luis Ebensperger Luis Ebensperger Loren Hayes Rodrigo A Vásquez Todd H Ahern Joseph R Burger Adam G Dolezal Andy Dosmann Gabriela G Mariscal Breanna N Harris Emilio A Herrera Eileen A Lacey Jill Mateo Lisa McGraw Daniel Olazábal Marilyn Ramenofsky Dustin R Rubenstein Samuel A Sakhai Wendy Saltzman Cristina Sainz-Borgo Mauricio Soto-Gamboa Monica L Stewart Tina W Wey John C Wingfield Larry J Young |
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| description | Social interactions among conspecifics are a fundamental and adaptively significant component of the biology of numerous species. Such interactions give rise to group living as well as many of the complex forms of cooperation and conflict that occur within animal groups. Although previous conceptual models have focused on the ecological causes and fitness consequences of variation in social interactions, recent developments in endocrinology, neuroscience, and molecular genetics offer exciting opportunities to develop more integrated research programs that will facilitate new insights into the physiological causes and consequences of social variation. Here, we propose an integrative framework of social behavior that emphasizes relationships between ultimate-level function and proximate-level mechanism, thereby providing a foundation for exploring the full diversity of factors that underlie variation in social interactions, and ultimately sociality. In addition to identifying new model systems for the study of human psychopathologies, this framework provides a mechanistic basis for predicting how social behavior will change in response to environmental variation. We argue that the study of non-model organisms is essential for implementing this integrative model of social behavior because such species can be studied simultaneously in the lab and field, thereby allowing integration of rigorously controlled experimental manipulations with detailed observations of the ecological contexts in which interactions among conspecifics occur. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9149d88faba946ea93aec5eeedb3f7062022-12-22T03:16:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532010-06-01410.3389/fnbeh.2010.000341850Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunitiesDaniel T Blumstein0Luis Ebensperger1Luis Ebensperger2Loren Hayes3Rodrigo A Vásquez4Todd H Ahern5Joseph R Burger6Adam G Dolezal7Andy Dosmann8Gabriela G Mariscal9Breanna N Harris10Emilio A Herrera11Eileen A Lacey12Jill Mateo13Lisa McGraw14Daniel Olazábal15Marilyn Ramenofsky16Dustin R Rubenstein17Samuel A Sakhai18Wendy Saltzman19Cristina Sainz-Borgo20Mauricio Soto-Gamboa21Monica L Stewart22Tina W Wey23John C Wingfield24Larry J Young25University of California, Los AngelesP. Universidad Católica de ChileUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of Louisiana at MonroeUniversidad de ChileYerkes National Primate Center, Emory University School of MedicineUniversity of Louisiana at MonroeArizona State UniversityUniversity of ChicagoCINVESTAV-UATUniversity of CaliforniaUniversidad Simón BolívarUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of ChicagoEmory UniversityFacultad de MedicinaUniversity of CaliforniaColumbia UniversityUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaUniversidad Simón BolívarInstituto de Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Austral de ChileUniversity of Louisiana at MonroeUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of CaliforniaYerkes National Primate Center, Emory University School of MedicineSocial interactions among conspecifics are a fundamental and adaptively significant component of the biology of numerous species. Such interactions give rise to group living as well as many of the complex forms of cooperation and conflict that occur within animal groups. Although previous conceptual models have focused on the ecological causes and fitness consequences of variation in social interactions, recent developments in endocrinology, neuroscience, and molecular genetics offer exciting opportunities to develop more integrated research programs that will facilitate new insights into the physiological causes and consequences of social variation. Here, we propose an integrative framework of social behavior that emphasizes relationships between ultimate-level function and proximate-level mechanism, thereby providing a foundation for exploring the full diversity of factors that underlie variation in social interactions, and ultimately sociality. In addition to identifying new model systems for the study of human psychopathologies, this framework provides a mechanistic basis for predicting how social behavior will change in response to environmental variation. We argue that the study of non-model organisms is essential for implementing this integrative model of social behavior because such species can be studied simultaneously in the lab and field, thereby allowing integration of rigorously controlled experimental manipulations with detailed observations of the ecological contexts in which interactions among conspecifics occur.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00034/fullPsychopathologyBehavioral geneticsbehavioral neuroendocrinologymodel systemsintegrative models of social behavior |
| spellingShingle | Daniel T Blumstein Luis Ebensperger Luis Ebensperger Loren Hayes Rodrigo A Vásquez Todd H Ahern Joseph R Burger Adam G Dolezal Andy Dosmann Gabriela G Mariscal Breanna N Harris Emilio A Herrera Eileen A Lacey Jill Mateo Lisa McGraw Daniel Olazábal Marilyn Ramenofsky Dustin R Rubenstein Samuel A Sakhai Wendy Saltzman Cristina Sainz-Borgo Mauricio Soto-Gamboa Monica L Stewart Tina W Wey John C Wingfield Larry J Young Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Psychopathology Behavioral genetics behavioral neuroendocrinology model systems integrative models of social behavior |
| title | Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities |
| title_full | Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities |
| title_short | Towards an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities |
| title_sort | towards an integrative understanding of social behavior new models and new opportunities |
| topic | Psychopathology Behavioral genetics behavioral neuroendocrinology model systems integrative models of social behavior |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00034/full |
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