Not so social in old age: demography as one driver of decreasing sociality

J Schroeder, J Dunning, AHH Chan… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans become more selective with whom they spend their time, and as a result, the social
networks of older humans are smaller than those of younger ones. In non-human animals …

Adult telomere length is positively correlated with survival and lifetime reproductive success in a wild passerine

HYJ Chik, ME Mannarelli, N Dos Remedios… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Explaining variation in individual fitness is a key goal in evolutionary biology. Recently,
telomeres, repeating DNA sequences capping chromosome ends, have gained attention as …

[HTML][HTML] Extrapair paternity alongside social reproduction increases male lifetime fitness

J Dunning, A Sánchez-Tójar, A Girndt, T Burke, YH Hsu… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Within years, male house sparrows invested in social or extrapair offspring, or
both.•Within a year, reproductive strategy depended on the environmental context.•Males …