In animals that live in groups, some individuals are leaders and others are followers. A modelling study shows that variation in leadership evolves spontaneously and need not be related to differences in knowledge or power.
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Weissing, F. Born leaders. Nature 474, 288–289 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474288a
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