A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure

• Ben Kawam ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ben.kawam-1@biologie.uni-goettingen.de

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Primate Social Evolution Group, German Primate Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Human Behaviour, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5779-1423

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• Julia Ostner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Primate Social Evolution Group, German Primate Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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• Richard McElreath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Behaviour, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Oliver Schülke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Schülke, Daniel Redhead

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Behavioural Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Primate Social Evolution Group, German Primate Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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• Daniel Redhead

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Schülke, Daniel Redhead

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Human Behaviour, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Inter-University Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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