Field studies need to report essential information on social organisation – independent of the study focus

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Makuya, Lindelani | Olivier, Charlotte‐anaïs | Schradin, Carsten

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International audience. Comparative studies on social evolution are ideally based on large datasets to ensure high statistical power, but their scientific validity also relies on the quality of the data. However, even though social organization, i.e., the composition of social units, is measured in many field studies testing specific hypotheses, these data are often not adequately reported. Here,

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