Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history

JM Kamilar, N Cooper - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Examining biological diversity in an explicitly evolutionary context has been the subject of
research for several decades, yet relatively recent advances in analytical techniques and the …

[PDF][PDF] Primate socioecology, the lost dream of ecological determinism

B Thierry - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews …, 2008 - researchgate.net
How would we know when a theory has to be given up? Nobody is able to answer this
question. Contrary to the Popperian thesis, some counterevidence is not enough to falsify a …

Phylogenetic signal, evolutionary process, and rate

LJ Revell, LJ Harmon, DC Collar - Systematic biology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
A recent advance in the phylogenetic comparative analysis of continuous traits has been
explicit, model-based measurement of “phylogenetic signal” in data sets composed of …

The influence of phylogeny, social style, and sociodemographic factors on macaque social network structure

KN Balasubramaniam, BA Beisner… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Among nonhuman primates, the evolutionary underpinnings of variation in social structure
remain debated, with both ancestral relationships and adaptation to current conditions …

Poor statistical performance of the Mantel test in phylogenetic comparative analyses

LJ Harmon, RE Glor - Evolution, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The Mantel test, based on comparisons of distance matrices, is commonly employed in
comparative biology, but its statistical properties in this context are unknown. Here, we …

Terrestriality and bacterial transfer: a comparative study of gut microbiomes in sympatric Malagasy mammals

AC Perofsky, RJ Lewis, LA Meyers - The ISME journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The gut microbiomes of mammals appear to mirror their hosts' phylogeny, suggesting host-
driven microbial community assembly. Yet, much of this evidence stems from comparative …

Grouping and fission–fusion dynamics in Australian snubfin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins

GJ Parra, PJ Corkeron, P Arnold - Animal behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Dolphins live in complex social systems with a wide variety of grouping and association
patterns. Understanding the spatiotemporal variation of these associations (fission–fusion …

Feeding strategies of primates in temperate and alpine forests: comparison of Asian macaques and colobines

Y Tsuji, G Hanya, CC Grueter - Primates, 2013 - Springer
We analyzed regional variation in the diets of two primate clades, Asian macaques and
colobines, whose distributions include temperate–alpine forests. We addressed feeding …

Evolutionary transitions toward pair living in nonhuman primates as stepping stones toward more complex societies

PM Kappeler, L Pozzi - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Nonhuman primate societies vary tremendously in size and composition, but how and why
evolutionary transitions among different states occurred remains highly controversial. In …

Hierarchical steepness and phylogenetic models: phylogenetic signals in Macaca

KN Balasubramaniam, K Dittmar, CM Berman… - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
Phylogenetic models of primate social behaviour posit that core social traits are inherent
species characteristics that depend largely on phylogenetic histories of species rather than …