From disorganized equality to efficient hierarchy: how group size drives the evolution of hierarchy in human societies
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 2666928
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rspb.2020.0693
- Title of journal
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Article number
- 20200693
- First page
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- Volume
- 287
- Issue
- 1928
- ISSN
- 0962-8452
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_From_disorganized_equality_to_efficient_hierarchy_how_group_size_drives_the_evolution_of_hierarchy_in_human_societies_/4973075
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 1
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper uses computational modelling to formally demonstrate that the pressures of increasing group size provide a resolution to the paradox of why individuals would evolve to become subordinate to a leader. This is a question that has long troubled anthropologists, archaeologists, and evolutionary biologists, and that had lacked formal modelling. This paper has an Altmetric score of 71, placing it in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric (https://royalsociety.altmetric.com/details/83483304). It was retweeted 115 times, and led to an interview by the journalist Gwynne Dyer for inclusion in a documentary on the origin of hierarchy.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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