Mary Brooke McElreath

Sep 20, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Simeon Q Smeele |Juan Carlos Senar |Mary Brooke McElreath |Lucy Aplin

AbstractThe social complexity hypothesis argues that communicative complexity arises as a result of social complexity, with this occurring through several potential mechanisms including plasticity and selection. Most research to date has focused on ultimate drivers of repertoire size, for example finding that cooperative breeding species exhibit larger repertoires. Until this date no study has focused on individual-level drivers of vocal diversity.