Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprint
Despotism promotes cooperation through enhanced interdependencies in non-human primate societies
Debottam Bhattacharjee, Tonko Willem Zijlstra, Tom S. Roth…·Jorg J. M. Massen
The paper investigates cooperation in macaque societies, finding that despotic societies exhibit higher within-group cooperation due to enhanced interdependencies.
DOI 10.1101/2025.03.27.645840