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LIT-1122: Multiple time-scales and the developmental dynamics of social systems

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1351) in full, from the publisher's version in PubMed Central (PMC3367696, CC BY) as Europe PMC full-text XML; worth reading as the short statement of the slow-variable idea on one primate group: subordination signals that change about two orders of magnitude more slowly than fight outcomes, and power read from them. Read it knowing that the animals' use of these variables is what "the data suggest", argued from earlier studies and not tested here, that the timescale of power is not measured, and that its stated 165-fold ratio does not follow from the counts it gives (about 128 to 150).
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Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1351 — Flack — Multiple time-scales and the developmental dynamics of social systems

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Flack, J. C. (2012). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367(1597):1802–1810.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1351).

Why this is here

A8 and A9 of the exchange of 2026-10-16: the source for CLAIM-327’s member-accessible slow variable and a ground for CLAIM-331. A reading should check that the animals’ use of the slow variable is shown and not only inferred.

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