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Article Dans Une Revue (Article De Synthèse) American Journal of Primatology Année : 2011

How can social network analysis improve the study of primate behavior?

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When living in a group, individuals have to make trade-offs, and compromise, in order to balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals to achieve this typically affect inter-individual interactions resulting in nonrandom associations. Studying the patterns of this assortativity using social network analyses can allow us to explore how individual behavior influences what happens at the group, or population level. Understanding the consequences of these interactions at multiple scales may allow us to better understand the fitness implications for individuals. Social network analyses offer the tools to achieve this. This special issue aims to highlight benefits from using social network analysis in the study of primate behavior and to assess how this methodology can be applied to analyze individual social characteristics as well as group/population patterns. We first introduce social network theory, then demonstrate with examples how social networks can influence individual and collective behaviors, and finally conclude with some outstanding questions for future primatological research. Am. J. Primatol. 71:1-17, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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hal-00561345 , version 1 (01-02-2011)

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Cédric Sueur, Armand Jacobs, Frédéric Amblard, Odile Petit, Andrew J King. How can social network analysis improve the study of primate behavior?. American Journal of Primatology, 2011, 73 (8), pp.703-719. ⟨10.1002/ajp.20915⟩. ⟨hal-00561345⟩
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