Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates

In animal social groups, the extent to which individuals consistently win agonistic interactions and their ability to monopolize resources represent two core aspects of their competitive regime. However, whether these two aspects are closely correlated within groups has rarely been studied. Here, we tested the hypothesis that hierarchy steepness, which is generally used to represent power differentials between group members, predicts the variation in the distribution of fitness-related benefits (i.e., fecundity, infant survival, mating success and feeding success) in relation to individual dominance ranks. We tested this hypothesis in primate groups using comparative phylogenetic meta-analytical techniques. Specifically, we reviewed published and unpublished studies to extract data on individual dominance ranks, their access to fitness-related benefits and hierarchy steepness. We collected and included in our analysis a total of 153 data points, representing 27 species (including two ch..., , , Relationship between dominance hierarchy steepness and rank-relatedness of benefits in primates

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n5tb2rc4w](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n5tb2rc4w)

We have submitted our raw data (**Supplementary Raw Data.csv**), phylogenetic tree (**consensusTree_Primates.nex**), R scripts
(**Part 1 All data_Table2&TableS1-S10.R**)
(**Part 2 All data_TableS11-S37.R**)
(**Part 3 Restricted data_Table3&TableS38-S45.R**)
(**Part 4 Simple models_TableS46-S47.R**)
(**Part 5 Unpublished and published datasets_TableS48-S63.R**)
and results produced by each R script
(**Part 1 All data_Table2&TableS1-S10.txt**)
(**Part 2 All data_TableS11-S37.txt**)
(**Part 3 Restricted data_Table3&TableS38-S45.txt**)
(**Part 4 Simple models_TableS46-S47.txt**)
(**Part 5 Unpublished and published datasets_TableS48-S63.txt**).

## Descriptions

### **Supplementary Raw Data.csv**

* *Authors*: For published data, it's authors of the paper; for unpublished data, the authors are we c...