The Fragility of Individual-Based Explanations of Social Hierarchies: A Test Using Animal Pecking Orders.

The standard approach in accounting for hierarchical differentiation in biology and the social sciences considers a hierarchy as a static distribution of individuals possessing differing amounts of some valued commodity, assumes that the hierarchy is generated by micro-level processes involving indi...

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Main Authors: Ivan D Chase, W Brent Lindquist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4943712?pdf=render