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Animal Cooperation

Animal Cooperation is a behavioral phenomenon in which individuals of non-human species engage in coordinated actions that yield mutual benefits, distinguished from other social behaviors by its reliance on interdependent contributions toward a shared outcome.

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Cooperation In Animals

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Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd et al. · Evolution and Human Behavior · 2003 · 1K citations

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Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals.

Robin Dunbar, Alexander H. Harcourt, Frans Β. Μ. de Waal · Man · 1993 · 969 citations

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EVOLUTION OF HELPING BEHAVIOR IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING BIRDS

Andrew Cockburn · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1998 · 814 citations

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Grooming, alliances and reciprocal altruism in vervet monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney · Nature · 1984 · 729 citations

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SOCPROG programs: analysing animal social structures

Hal Whitehead · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2009 · 722 citations

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  1. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    34 publications · 5.4K citations

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  2. MT
    Michael Taborsky

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    34 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. RB
    Redouan Bshary

    University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    31 publications · 2.3K citations

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  4. TC
    Tim Clutton‐Brock

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    24 publications · 2.7K citations

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  5. FR
    Friederike Range

    University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria

    23 publications · 1.4K citations

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Institutions

799

  1. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    55 h-index

    223 publications

    33.2K citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    36 h-index

    120 publications

    13.2K citations

  3. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    29 h-index

    102 publications

    6.5K citations

  4. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    29 h-index

    64 publications

    9.4K citations

  5. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    27 h-index

    69 publications

    5.5K citations

  6. University of Neuchâtel

    Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    26 h-index

    79 publications

    4.5K citations

  7. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    37 publications

    3.4K citations

  8. University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

    Vienna, Austria

    22 h-index

    91 publications

    5.4K citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

    109 publications · 11.6K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 34 publications · 6K citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    36 publications · 2.3K citations

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  5. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    31 publications · 4K citations

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