Gerald Wilkinson sharing with us the amazing variety of social systems, social structures and social dynamics in #bat species. But they are also special in diet, longevity and litter size. How do these factors relate to #SocialComplexity ? #GFT

Some interesting findings from cross species social network and relatedness comparisons in #bats #GFT #SocialComplexity

Last day of #GFT #SocialComplexity starts with Carel van Schaik giving a fascinating talk about the evolution of cultural complexity in Hominids. Interesting differences between captive and wild orangutan populations when it comes to precursors of innovation.

'They can, but they don't'. When and how did conditions change that facilitated curiosity? #GFT #SocialComplexity

A surprising change of gear with Sergey Gavrilets. #GFT #SocialComplexity

And for the simplified version of the conclusions on collective action and institutionalized leadership in humans. #GFT #SocialComplexity

Ruth Mace highlighting similarities between cooperation in small scale #human societies and that of #vampire #bats (@gerrygcarter). Love thy neighbour? #GFT #SocialComplexity

Jeffrey Stevens giving us insights into the relevance of combining memory errors and association skews to understand the presence of cooperation. Nice talk! #GFT #SocialComplexity

Interesting talk by Sofia Forss on how sociality influences novelty response, with important implications for innovation. #GFT #SocialComplexity

Amiyaal Ilany showing how social inheritance via triadic closure can generate social network structure and pseudo genetic heritability. 'A complex system = a simple system we do not understand yet'. #GFT #SocialComplexity

Flavia Koch now showing consistent behavioral variability in individual participation in group encounters in #vervets . Implications for the emergence of cooperation? #GFT #SocialComplexity