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Colony size predicts division of labour in Attine ants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Division of labour is central to the ecological success of eusocial insects, yet the evolutionary factors driving increases in complexity in division of labour are little known.
Alexander RD   +10 more
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Explosive Expansion, Sociotechnical Diversity, and Fragile Sovereignty in the Domain of the Inka

open access: yesJournal of Social Computing, 2022
Societies of the late prehispanic Andes—the Inkas principal among them—have long figured as “exceptions to the rule” in social evolutionary schemata, in large measure because they seemingly lacked key technological hallmarks of complex societies found in
Steven A. Wernke
doaj   +1 more source

The complexity of neuroenhancement and the adoption of a social cognitive perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This contribution attempts to provide a broad perspective to the psychological study of neuroenhancement (NE). It departs from the assumption that, as the use of performance enhancing substances in sport, the use of substances with the aim of improving ...
LUCIDI, Fabio   +2 more
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pyObs: Open-Source Software for Computer-Assisted Behavioral Observation Coding

open access: yesJournal of Open Research Software, 2018
pyObs is a computer-assisted behavioral observation coding system used to record social interaction among children in classroom and playground settings.
William A. Griffin
doaj   +1 more source

Social system as complex networks [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Network Analysis and Mining, 2014
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Gourab Ghoshal   +3 more
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Consistency of Social Interactions in Sooty Mangabeys and Chimpanzees

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Predictability of social interactions can be an important measure for the social complexity of an animal group. Predictability is partially dependent on how consistent interaction patterns are over time: does the behavior on 1 day explain the behavior on
Alexander Mielke   +14 more
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Diffusion in complex social networks [PDF]

open access: yesGames and Economic Behavior, 2008
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
openaire   +1 more source

Sociality influences cultural complexity [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
Archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence suggests a link between a population's size and structure, and the diversity or sophistication of its toolkits or technologies. Addressing these patterns, several evolutionary models predict that both the size and social interconnectedness of populations can contribute to the complexity of its cultural ...
Michael, Muthukrishna   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The educational situation in Utopia: Why what is, is [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this response to Molly Ware’s review of our 2013 book, John Dewey and Education Outdoors, we extend her suggestion that complexity be regarded as an important, generative force in education reform.
Quay, John, Seaman, Jayson O.
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Complexity science and intentional systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In their position paper entitled "Towards a new, complexity science of learning and education", Jorg et al. (2007) argue that educational research is in crisis.
Leydesdorff, Loet
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