A research team led by scientists at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) reports that fashion cycles in music are driven by outsider groups. Outsiders challenge the dominant music style by strongly contrasting the preferences ...
Social Sciences
Feb 7, 2019
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In most animal societies, members of one sex dominate those of the other. Is this, as widely believed, an inevitable consequence of a disparity in strength and ferocity between males and females? Not necessarily. A new study ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2018
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Dominant male pheasants learn faster than their downtrodden rivals, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2018
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Mongoose mothers boost their pups' survival chances by evicting rival females from their social groups, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2017
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Within a group of meerkats, call patterns vary with factors including sex, rank and reproductive season—but not with stress hormones, according to a study published May 3, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jelena ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2017
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In the world of chimpanzees, being the alpha male definitely has its benefits and, as with humans, it's good to have powerful friends.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2016
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338
Research from the University of Sussex suggests that humans are unique among primates in being able to intentionally alter the frequencies of our voices to sound larger or smaller than we really are, a capacity that is likely ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2016
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Researchers have developed a behavioral model that explains the complexity and diversity of social hierarchies in ants, and which scientists believe may help us understand the nature of other animal societies - from primates ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2016
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Large ornamental structures in dinosaurs, such as horns and head crests are likely to have been used in sexual displays and to assert social dominance, according to a new analysis of Protoceratops carried out by scientists ...
Archaeology
Jan 13, 2016
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387
For a small African fish species, a colorful dominant male does better in life, winning access to food and females. New research by Stanford biologists suggests that this lucky outcome is regulated at a genetic level, by ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2016
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