Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates
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The behavioral process of construction within a single generation and the role of robustness mechanism in promoting interactions that build social resource networks or social niches are discussed. The third-party policing not only controls conflict, but also influences the structure of networks that constitute essential social resources in primate societies and the structure of such networks play a vital role in infant survivorship, emergence and spread of cooperative behavior, social learning and cultural traditions.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Monkeys reject unequal pay
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Research shows that inequity aversion is not uniquely human and that cooperative nonhuman species are guided by a set of expectations about the outcome of cooperation and resource division. Results reveal that primate capuchin monkeys negatively respond to unequal reward distribution and refuse to participate if they see a conspecific obtain a more attractive reward for equal effort.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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Fair refusal by capuchin monkeys
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The query relating to the reaction of monkey showing the sense of fairness, as rejecting a less preferred reward when they saw another receiving a preferred reward is mentioned. The response to this query is overviewed, by elucidating evolutionary precursors to inequity aversion.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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