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Being a leader or being the leader: The evolution of institutionalised hierarchy
Cedric Perret, Emma Hart, Simon T. Powers
Human social hierarchy has the unique characteristic of existing in two forms. Firstly, as an informal hierarchy where leaders and followers are implicitly defined by their persona…
Can justice be fair when it is blind? How social network structures can promote or prevent the evolution of despotism
Cedric Perret, Simon T. Powers, Jeremy Pitt +1
Hierarchy is an efficient way for a group to organize, but often goes along with inequality that benefits leaders. To control despotic behaviour, followers can assess leaders decis…
What can ecosystems learn? Expanding evolutionary ecology with learning theory
Daniel A. Power, Richard A. Watson, Eörs Szathmáry +4
Understanding how the structure of community interactions is modified by coevolution is vital for understanding system responses to change at all scales. However, in absence of a g…
How to measure group selection in real-world populations
Simon T. Powers, Christopher Heys, Richard A. Watson
Multilevel selection and the evolution of cooperation are fundamental to the formation of higher-level organisation and the evolution of biocomplexity, but such notions are controv…
The efficacy of group selection is increased by coexistence dynamics within groups
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
Selection on the level of loosely associated groups has been suggested as a route towards the evolution of cooperation between individuals and the subsequent formation of higher-le…
The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it
Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson
The evolution of cooperation often depends upon population structure, yet nearly all models of cooperation implicitly assume that this structure remains static. This is a simplifyi…