Fission-Fusion Dynamics, Behavioral Flexibility, and Inhibitory Control in Primates

Federica Amici,1,2,3,4 Filippo Aureli,1,* and Josep Call2,* 1Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology School of Biological and Earth Sciences Liverpool John Moores University James Parsons Building Byrom Street Liverpool L3 3AF United Kingdom 2Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig Germany 3Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 16/b 00197 Rome Italy 4Research Group Behavioural Biology Ethologie Station Padualaan 8 De Uithof, 3584CH Utrecht the Netherlands

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