Kingsley Hunt

Wild Democracies: The Role of Collective Decisions in Animal Peace! Recent research from our PhD student Kingsley Hunt delves into how animals use shared decision-making to foster peaceful societies. The paper is entitled: “The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies”

The democratic peace hypothesis suggests that autocracies are more warlike than democracies. Hunt et al. use evolutionary game theory to test this across taxa, finding that democratic peace can emerge without complex institutions @UniExeCEC @collectiveEcol nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper from @KingsleyLHunt and @collectiveEcol eploring whether Democracy leads to peace in animals as well as humans! Blog here: communities.springernature.com/posts/evolutio… @NatureComms paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

(1/2) Can peace evolve? Advantaged leaders prefer conflict and shunt the cost to followers. Increasing the democratic power of followers leads to less conflict: nature.com/articles/s4146… #ecology #evolution #gametheory