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The path to sociality

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A comparative analysis traces the trajectory of change in social organization among primates and establishes a firm foundation for modelling the origins of social complexity. See Letter p.219

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Figure 1: Living together.

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  1. Joan B. Silk is in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90064, USA.,

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Silk, J. The path to sociality. Nature 479, 182–183 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/479182a

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