Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies
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Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies.
Recent studies have demonstrated that human societies are hierarchically structured with a consistent scaling ratio across successive layers of the social network; each layer of the network is between three and four times the size of the preceding (smaller) grouping level. Here we show that similar relationships hold for four mammalian taxa living in multi-level social systems. For elephant (Lo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0393