About the Authors

Joan B. Silk

Contributed equally to this work with: Joan B. Silk, Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney

joansilk@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America

Robert M. Seyfarth

Contributed equally to this work with: Joan B. Silk, Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America

Dorothy L. Cheney

Contributed equally to this work with: Joan B. Silk, Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DLC RMS JBS. Data curation: DLC RMS JBS. Formal analysis: DLC RMS JBS. Investigation: DLC RMS JBS. Methodology: DLC RMS JBS. Project administration: DLC RMS. Supervision: DLC RMS JBS. Visualization: DLC RMS JBS. Writing – original draft: DLC RMS JBS. Writing – review & editing: DLC RMS JBS.