J Komdeur, L Ma - Ethology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the current era of rapid climate change, populations are facing environments in which food availability can quickly decline or become highly unpredictable. These conditions may …
Division of labor occurs when cooperating individuals specialize to perform different tasks. In bacteria and other microorganisms, some species divide labor by random specialization …
AR Freeman - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Female–female reproductive suppression is evident in an array of mammals, including rodents, primates, and carnivores. By suppressing others, breeding females can benefit by …
The evolutionary paradox of animals helping others in their social group, rather than living independently, has fascinated researchers for many decades. Ultimately, this cooperation is …
Social hierarchies can increase reproductive skew in group-living animals. Using game theory we investigate how the opportunity for differently ranked individuals to acquire …
Understanding the diversity and evolution of mating systems in the primate order is a key question in biological anthropology. Mating systems evolve from selection on males and …
The use of sacred values by humans to enforce cooperation has been seen throughout human history, as demonstrated by philosophers like Marx and Aristotle observing that …