Observational analysis reveals feedback loops in social networks affecting collective intelligence, suggesting cultural transmission plays a role.
Dunbar explains primates group cohesion through cognitive and structural mechanisms like grooming and social cognition. We extend this by highlighting collective social niche construction, where emergent social properties arise from feedback loops, selection pressures, and self-organisation. Adaptive social networks evolve through multilevel selection, cultural transmission, and ontogenetic changes, shaping survival, cognition, and collective intelligence across species.
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