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Multilevel animal societies can emerge from cultural transmission. <i>Nature Comm. 6(8091)</i>: 10 pp. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9091\" target=\"_blank\">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9091</a>","BEntID":241750,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Nature Comm. 6(8091)</i>: 10 pp. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9091\" target=\"_blank\">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9091</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Cantor, M.; Shoemaker, L.G.; Cabral, R.B.; Flores, C.O.; Varga, M.; Whitehead, H.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Cantor, M. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Multilevel societies, containing hierarchically nested social levels, are remarkable social structures whose origins are unclear. 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