Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks

被引：92

作者：

Pasquaretta, Cristian ^{[1
,2
]}

Leve, Marine ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Claidiere, Nicolas ^{[4
]}

van de Waal, Erica ^{[4
,5
]}

Whiten, Andrew ^{[4
,5
]}

MacIntosh, Andrew J. J. ^{[6
,7
]}

Pele, Marie ^{[8
]}

Bergstrom, Mackenzie L. ^{[9
]}

Borgeaud, Christele ^{[5
,10
]}

Brosnan, Sarah F. ^{[11
,12
]}

Crofoot, Margaret C. ^{[13
,14
]}

Fedigan, Linda M. ^{[9
]}

Fichtel, Claudia ^{[15
,16
]}

Hopper, Lydia M. ^{[11
,12
,17
,18
]}

Mareno, Mary Catherine ^{[18
]}

Petit, Odile ^{[1
,2
,19
]}

Schnoell, Anna Viktoria ^{[16
]}

di Sorrentino, Eugenia Polizzi ^{[20
,21
]}

Thierry, Bernard ^{[1
,2
]}

Tiddi, Barbara ^{[16
,22
]}

Sueur, Cedric ^{[1
,2
,19
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Strasbourg, Inst Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Strasbourg, France

[2] CNRS, Dept Ecol Physiol & Ethol, Strasbourg, France

[3] Ecole Normale Super, F-75231 Paris, France

[4] Univ St Andrews, Ctr Social Learning & Cognit Evolut, Sch Psychol & Neurosci, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland

[5] Mawana Game Reserve, Inkawu Vervet Project, Swart Mfolozi, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

[6] Kyoto Univ, Primate Res Inst, Ctr Int Collaborat & Adv Studies Primatol, Inuyama, Aichi 4848506, Japan

[7] Kyoto Univ, Wildlife Res Ctr, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068203, Japan

[8] Ethobiosci, Res & Consultancy Agcy Anim Wellbeing & Behav, Strasbourg, France

[9] Univ Calgary, Dept Anthropol, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

[10] Univ Neuchatel, Inst Biol, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland

[11] Georgia State Univ, Dept Psychol, Atlanta, GA 30302 USA

[12] Georgia State Univ, Language Res Ctr, Atlanta, GA 30302 USA

[13] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Anthropol, Davis, CA 95616 USA

[14] Smithsonian Trop Res Inst, Panama City, Panama

[15] German Primate Ctr, Behav Ecol & Sociobiol Unit, Gottingen, Germany

[16] Univ Gottingen, Courant Res Ctr Evolut Social Behav, Gottingen, Germany

[17] Lincoln Pk Zoo, Lester E Fisher Ctr Study & Conservat Apes, Chicago, IL 60614 USA

[18] UT MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Michale E Keeling Ctr Comparat Med & Res, Bastrop, TX 78602 USA

[19] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Unit Social Ecol, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[20] ISTC CNR, Unit Cognit Primatol, Rome, Italy

[21] ISTC CNR, Ctr Primate, Rome, Italy

[22] German Primate Ctr, Cognit Ethol Lab, Gottingen, Germany

来源：

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 2014年 / 4卷

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

GROUP-SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECISION-MAKING; NEOCORTEX SIZE; BRAIN; BEHAVIOR; CONSEQUENCES; MODULARITY; DYNAMICS; FISSION;

D O I：

10.1038/srep07600

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Network optimality has been described in genes, proteins and human communicative networks. In the latter, optimality leads to the efficient transmission of information with a minimum number of connections. Whilst studies show that differences in centrality exist in animal networks with central individuals having higher fitness, network efficiency has never been studied in animal groups. Here we studied 78 groups of primates (24 species). We found that group size and neocortex ratio were correlated with network efficiency. Centralisation (whether several individuals are central in the group) and modularity (how a group is clustered) had opposing effects on network efficiency, showing that tolerant species have more efficient networks. Such network properties affecting individual fitness could be shaped by natural selection. Our results are in accordance with the social brain and cultural intelligence hypotheses, which suggest that the importance of network efficiency and information flow through social learning relates to cognitive abilities.

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