social evolution

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages.

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social evolution British  

noun

1. sociol the process of social development from an early simple type of social organization to one that is complex and highly specialized

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Example Sentences

"This work shows that understanding social evolution isn't just about adding new traits," Professor Lo said.

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First author of the current paper is Matthew Zipple, a neurobiologist at Cornell University's Laboratory for Animal Social Evolution and Recognition.

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Baptiste Sadoughi, first author of the study and former PhD student in the Social Evolution in Primates Group at the German Primate Center turned to long-term social data on female Assamese macaques collected at the DPZ field site at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary to test the drivers of social aging in non-human primate species that lack a human-like sense of mortality.

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"With age comes a greater risk of death. With poor social integration and fewer partners close by comes a greater risk of death, especially under natural predation pressure. This simple fact means that changes in social integration with age are partially confounded by the greater likelihood that individuals who reach old age will be exceptionally well-connected socially, because the less well-connected have already died, a phenomenon called selective disappearance," explains Prof. Julia Ostner, head of the Social Evolution in Primates Group and senior author of the study.

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So, what if researchers could influence their social evolution to promote certain behaviors?

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