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This paper will introduce a theory of emergent animal social complexity using various results from computational models and empirical results. These results will be organized into a vertical model of social complexity. This will support the perspective that social complexity is in essence an emergent phenomenon while helping to answer two interrelated questions. The first of these involves how behavior is integrated at units of analysis larger than the individual organism. The second involves placing aggregate social events into the context of processes occurring within individual organisms over time (e.g. genomic and physiological processes). By using a complex systems perspective, five principles of social complexity can be identified. These principles suggest that lower-level mechanisms give rise to high-level mechanisms, ultimately resulting in metastable networks of social relations. These network structures then constrain lower-level phenomena ranging from transient, collective social groups to physiological regulatory mechanisms within individual organisms. In conclusion, the broader implications and drawbacks of applying the theory to a diversity of natural populations will be discussed.
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