Alloparental care is central to human life history, which integrates exceptionally short
interbirth intervals and large birth size with an extended period of juvenile dependency and …

Animal sociality plays a crucial organisational role in evolution. As a result, understanding
the factors that promote the emergence, maintenance, and diversification of animal societies …

Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) has largely focused on how parental exposure to
ecological conditions shapes the phenotypes of future generations. However, organisms …

Climate change is generating an intensification of extreme environmental conditions,
including frequent and severe droughts [1] that have been associated with increased social …

Group living is predicted to arise only when the fitness benefits outweigh the costs of
sociality. Group-living species—including cooperatively breeding and family-living birds and …

Recent comparative studies show that cooperative breeding is positively correlated with
harsh and unpredictable environments and it is suggested that this association occurs …

Although kin selection is assumed to underlie the evolution of sociality, many vertebrates—
including nearly half of all cooperatively breeding birds—form groups that also include …

Cooperatively breeding animals occur in virtually every ecosystem on earth. Comparative
and biogeographic studies suggest that both benign and harsh—as well as stable and …

Multilevel societies are formed when stable groups of individuals spatially overlap and
associate preferentially with other groups, producing a hierarchical social structure. 1 Once …

While there are many species that are commonly used for the study of mammalian social
behavior, there remains a need for lab‐suitable organisms that are appropriate for …