The effects of dominance on leadership and energetic gain: a dynamic game between pairs of social foragers.

Although social behaviour can bring many benefits to an individual, there are also costs that may be incurred whenever the members of a social group interact. The formation of dominance hierarchies could offer a means of reducing some of the costs of social interaction, but individuals within the hi...

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Main Author: Sean A Rands
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3197661?pdf=render