Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Renewed interest in fission‐fusion dynamics is due to the recognition that such dynamics may create unique challenges for social interaction and distinctive selective pressures acting on underlying communicative and cognitive abilities. New frameworks for integrating current knowledge on fission‐fusion dynamics emerge from a fundamental rethinking of the term “fission‐fusion” away from its current general use as a label for a particular modal type of social system (i.e., “fission‐fusion societies”). Specifically, because the degree of spatial and temporal cohesion of group members varies both within and across taxa, any social system can be described in terms of the extent to which it expresses fission‐fusion dynamics. This perspective has implications for socioecology, communication, cognitive demands, and human social evolution.
Source: Current Anthropology
DOI: 10.1086/586708
Authors: Filippo Aureli, Colleen M. Schaffner, Christophe Boesch, Simon K. Bearder, Josep Call, Colin A. Chapman, Richard Connor, Anthony Di Fiore, Robin I. M. Dunbar, S. Peter Henzi, Kay Holekamp, Amanda H. Korstjens, Robert Layton, Phyllis Lee, Julia Lehmann, Joseph H. Manson, Gabriel Ramos‐Fernandez, Karen B. Strier, Carel P. van Schaik
Institutions: Liverpool John Moores University, University of Chester, Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, McGill University, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New York University, British Academy, University of Oxford, University of Lethbridge, Michigan State University, Bournemouth University, Durham University, University of Stirling, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Zurich
Language: English
Topic: Primate Behavior and Ecology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Wenner-Gren Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2010339639