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 …

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 …

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 …

Among nonhuman primates, the evolutionary underpinnings of variation in social structure
remain debated, with both ancestral relationships and adaptation to current conditions …

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 …

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 …

Dolphins live in complex social systems with a wide variety of grouping and association
patterns. Understanding the spatiotemporal variation of these associations (fission–fusion …

We analyzed regional variation in the diets of two primate clades, Asian macaques and
colobines, whose distributions include temperate–alpine forests. We addressed feeding …

Nonhuman primate societies vary tremendously in size and composition, but how and why
evolutionary transitions among different states occurred remains highly controversial. In …

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 …