The Hows and Whys of Living in Groups: Perspectives from Birds and Apes
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Living in groups presents both challenges and opportunities. Group members have to resolve potential conflicts and make joint decisions on how to coordinate their activities if the group is to remain cohesive, but they can also draw on each other’s knowledge to solve problems better, passing these solutions down from generation to generation to build animal “cultures”. My research investigates the cognitive underpinnings of these phenomena – group decision-making, collective intelligence, social learning and culture – across birds and primates, and tries to pinpoint general organisational principles that have interesting parallels in human society.
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