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Exploring the causes and consequences of cooperative behaviour in wild animal populations using a social network approach

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BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 96, Issue 5, Pages 2355-2372

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12757

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cooperation; social network; assortment; social structure; reciprocity; mutualism

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  1. BBSRC [BB/S009752/1]
  2. NERC [NE/S010335/1]
  3. BBSRC [BB/S009752/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  4. NERC [NE/S010335/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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Understanding why individuals cooperate with genetically unrelated others is a major focus in biology. The social network approach is beneficial in identifying factors influencing cooperation, testing various routes to cooperation, and uncovering evolutionary and ecological pressures leading to differences in cooperation in natural populations.
Understanding why individuals carry out behaviours that benefit others, especially genetically unrelated others, has been a major undertaking in many fields and particularly in biology. Here, we focus on the cooperation literature from natural populations and present the benefits of a social network approach in terms of how it can help to identify and understand factors that influence the maintenance and spread of cooperation, but are not easily captured when solely considering independent dyadic interactions. We describe how various routes to cooperation can be tested within the social network framework. Applying the social network approach to data from natural populations can help to uncover the evolutionary and ecological pressures that lead to differences in cooperation and other social processes.

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