Primates are for the most part intensely social, and
dedicate large proportions of their time budgets to
servicing social relationships through grooming.
Conflicting arguments have been proposed to explain
the limits shown in group size; is it a restriction
in the brain capacity of females to keep track of
all their relationships, or could it be an
ecologicaly imposed limit in the time available to
socially interact and build relationships? Using
methods taken from social network analysis, this
study attempts to uncouple these two explanations by
examining how each affects aspects...