Publisher Correction: The prospect of rising in rank is key to long-term stability in Tibetan macaque society.

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The prospect of rising in rank is key to long-term stability in Tibetan macaque society.

One of the most fundamental questions in behavioural biology is why societies can persist for a long period of time. While researchers in animal behaviour have been hindered by a lack of an aggregate measure (such as social mobility) to quantify the dynamics of animal societies, researchers in social sciences have been challenged by the complexity and diversity of human societies. As a result, direct empirical evidence is still lacking for the hypothesized causal relationship between social mobility and social stability.