Report for: Leadership in Mammalian Societies: Emergence, Distribution, Power, and Payoff

Title	Leadership in Mammalian Societies: Emergence, Distribution, Power, and Payoff
Published in	Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2016
DOI	10.1016/j.tree.2015.09.013
Pubmed ID	26552515
Authors	Jennifer E. Smith, Sergey Gavrilets, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Paul L. Hooper, Claire El Mouden, Daniel Nettle, Christoph Hauert, Kim Hill, Susan Perry, Anne E. Pusey, Mark van Vugt, Eric Alden Smith
Abstract	Leadership is an active area of research in both the biological and social sciences. This review provides a transdisciplinary synthesis of biological and social-science views of leadership from an evolutionary perspective, and examines patterns of leadership in a set of small-scale human and non-human mammalian societies. We review empirical and theoretical work on leadership in four domains: movement, food acquisition, within-group conflict mediation, and between-group interactions. We categorize patterns of variation in leadership in five dimensions: distribution (across individuals), emergence (achieved versus inherited), power, relative payoff to leadership, and generality (across domains). We find that human leadership exhibits commonalities with and differences from the broader mammalian pattern, raising interesting theoretical and empirical issues.

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Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	7	14%
United States	7	14%
Spain	6	12%
Hong Kong	1	2%
Russia	1	2%
Germany	1	2%
Brazil	1	2%
India	1	2%
Switzerland	1	2%
Other	4	8%
Unknown	19	39%

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Members of the public	35	71%
Scientists	12	24%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	4%

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Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	3	<1%
Germany	2	<1%
Austria	1	<1%
Senegal	1	<1%
Netherlands	1	<1%
Sweden	1	<1%
Brazil	1	<1%
Denmark	1	<1%
United States	1	<1%
Other	0	0%
Unknown	293	96%

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Student > Ph. D. Student	72	24%
Student > Master	50	16%
Researcher	33	11%
Student > Bachelor	31	10%
Student > Doctoral Student	21	7%
Other	52	17%
Unknown	46	15%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	98	32%
Psychology	35	11%
Social Sciences	27	9%
Business, Management and Accounting	19	6%
Environmental Science	15	5%
Other	53	17%
Unknown	58	19%

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