Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

PE Savage, P Loui, B Tarr, A Schachner… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology

S Braude, S Holtze, S Begall, J Brenmoehl… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Naked mole‐rats express many unusual traits for such a small rodent. Their morphology,
social behaviour, physiology, and ageing have been well studied over the past half‐century …

The idiosyncratic physiological traits of the naked mole-rat; a resilient animal model of aging, longevity, and healthspan

R Buffenstein, W Craft - The extraordinary biology of the naked mole-rat, 2021 - Springer
The subterranean-dwelling naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is an extremophilic
rodent, able to thrive in the harsh underground conditions of sub-Saharan Northeast Africa …

Successful aging and sustained good health in the naked mole rat: a long-lived mammalian model for biogerontology and biomedical research

YH Edrey, M Hanes, M Pinto, J Mele… - ILAR journal, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Naked mole rats (NMRs; Heterocephalus glaber) are the longest-living rodents
known, with a maximum lifespan of 30 years—5 times longer than expected on the basis of …

Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility

L Holman, CG Jørgensen… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The selective forces that shape and maintain eusocial societies are an enduring puzzle in
evolutionary biology. Ordinarily sterile workers can usually reproduce given the right …

Competitive growth in a cooperative mammal

E Huchard, S English, MBV Bell, N Thavarajah… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
In many animal societies where hierarchies govern access to reproduction, the social rank of
individuals is related to their age and weight,,,, and slow-growing animals may lose their …

The role of threats in animal cooperation

MA Cant - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In human societies, social behaviour is strongly influenced by threats of punishment, even
though the threats themselves rarely need to be exercised. Recent experimental evidence …

Plasticity and constraints on social evolution in African mole-rats: ultimate and proximate factors

CG Faulkes, NC Bennett - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Here, we review comparative studies of African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) to explain
how constraints acting at the ultimate (environmental) and proximate (organismal) levels …

Social behavior in naked mole-rats: individual differences in phenotype and proximate mechanisms of mammalian eusociality

MM Holmes, BD Goldman - The extraordinary biology of the naked mole …, 2021 - Springer
Naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) are small rodents native to east Africa, living in
subterranean colonies of up to 300 individuals. Within each colony, reproduction is restricted …

Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback

IM Hamilton, MD Benincasa - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Size-based dominance hierarchies influence fitness, group size and population dynamics
and link dominance structure to evolutionary and ecological outcomes. While larger …