Animals evaluate and respond to their social environment with adaptive decisions.
Revealing the neural mechanisms of such decisions is a major goal in biology. We analyzed …

Tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of the ultimate and proximate
mechanisms underlying social behavior, yet an integrative evolutionary analysis of its …

Decision making in a social group has two distinguishing features. First, humans and other
animals routinely alter their behavior in response to changes in their physical and social …

All animals evaluate the salience of external stimuli and integrate them with internal
physiological information into adaptive behavior. Natural and sexual selection impinge on …

INTRODUCTION Social groups play a foundational role in the behavior of many animal
species. During group interactions, an individual's behavior can affect not only the well …

Vertebrate animals exhibit a spectacular diversity of social behaviors, yet a variety of basic
social behavior processes are essential to all species. These include social signaling; …

Social animals must detect, evaluate and respond to the emotional states of other
individuals in their group. A constellation of gestures, vocalizations, and chemosignals …

Competitive interactions have a vital role in the ecology of most animal species,–and
powerfully influence the behaviour of groups,. To succeed, individuals must exert effort …

Social behaviors, such as mating, fighting, and parenting, are fundamental for survival of any
vertebrate species. All members of a species express social behaviors in a stereotypical and …

What genes and regulatory sequences contribute to the organization and functioning of
neural circuits and molecular pathways in the brain that support social behavior? How does …