Projektnummer

0055591

Zusammenfassung

To understand the evolution of sociality in human and non-human primates, evolutionary anthropologists generally rely on a loose collection of verbal arguments referred to as the 'socioecological model'. This model has recently been criticized for leaving much variation in primate social organisation unexplained. Primatologists have therefore called for more formal mathematical models. I will address this need by modelling primate social evolution using demographically explicit population models, a class of gametheoretical models which allow for feedbacks between individual behaviour a...