Social ageing: exploring the drivers of late-life changes in social behaviour in mammals
dc.contributor.author | Siracusa, ER | |
dc.contributor.author | Higham, JP | |
dc.contributor.author | Snyder-Mackler, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Brent, LJN | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-07T11:56:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-03-02 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-07T11:27:42Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Social interactions help group-living organisms cope with socio-environmental challenges and are central to survival and reproductive success. Recent research has shown that social behaviour and relationships can change across the lifespan, a phenomenon referred to as 'social ageing'. Given the importance of social integration for health and well-being, age-dependent changes in social behaviour can modulate how fitness changes with age and may be an important source of unexplained variation in individual patterns of senescence. However, integrating social behaviour into ageing research requires a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of age-based changes in social behaviour. Here, we provide an overview of the drivers of late-life changes in sociality. We suggest that explanations for social ageing can be categorized into three groups: changes in sociality that (a) occur as a result of senescence; (b) result from adaptations to ameliorate the negative effects of senescence; and/or (c) result from positive effects of age and demographic changes. Quantifying the relative contribution of these processes to late-life changes in sociality will allow us to move towards a more holistic understanding of how and why these patterns emerge and will provide important insights into the potential for social ageing to delay or accelerate other patterns of senescence. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institute of Health | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institute of Health | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 20210643- | |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 18 (3), article 20210643 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0643 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | R01-AG060931 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | R00-AG051764 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128944 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-4205-7278 (Siracusa, Erin R) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1202-1939 (Brent, Lauren JN) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | The Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35232274 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | ageing | en_GB |
dc.subject | evolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | mammals | en_GB |
dc.subject | senescence | en_GB |
dc.subject | social behaviour | en_GB |
dc.title | Social ageing: exploring the drivers of late-life changes in social behaviour in mammals | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-07T11:56:14Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-9561 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from The Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1744-957X | |
dc.identifier.journal | Biology Letters | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Biol Lett, 18(3) | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-02-03 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-02-03 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-03-07T11:48:48Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-07T11:56:21Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-03-02 |
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