Jessica C. Flack

TL;DR: Policing not only controls conflict, it significantly influences the structure of networks that constitute essential social resources in gregarious primate societies, and plays a critical role in infant survivorship, emergence and spread of cooperative behaviour, social learning and cultural traditions.

TL;DR: This paper explored the extent to which human moral systems might be the product of natural selection by exploring behaviour in other species that is analogous and perhaps homologous to our own, and found that non-human primates have similar methods to humans for resolving, managing, and preventing conflicts of interests within their groups.

TL;DR: It is shown that knockout of components responsible for conflict management results in system destabilization by significantly increasing mean levels of conflict and aggression, decreasing socio-positive interaction and decreasing the operation of repair mechanisms.

TL;DR: This work finds that a heterogeneous, socially organized system, like homogeneous, spatial systems (flocks and schools), sits near a critical point; the contributions individuals make to collective phenomena can be quantified; there is heterogeneity in these contributions; and distance from the critical point (DFC) can be controlled through biologically plausible mechanisms exploiting heterogeneity.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a general feature of collective computation is a “coding duality” in which there are accumulation and consensus formation processes distinguished by different timescales, and that increasing collective amplification in Phase II leads naturally to a faster timescale of information pooling andensus formation.