In the current era of rapid climate change, populations are facing environments in which
food availability can quickly decline or become highly unpredictable. These conditions may …

Research on sociality in marine fishes is a vibrant field that is providing new insights into
social evolution more generally. Here, we review the past two decades of research …

Aggression is costly, and animals have evolved tactics to mitigate these costs. Submission
signals are an underappreciated example of such adaptations. Here we review submissive …

A rich theoretical framework exists for understanding animal conflict. When two opponents
fight over a resource, the duration, intensity and outcome of the fight ought to be determined …

Delayed dispersal is a key step in the evolution of familial animal societies and cooperative
breeding. However, no consensus has been reached on the ecological and social …

Group living may engender conflict over food, reproduction, or other resources and
individuals must be able to manage conflict for social groups to persist. Submission signals …

1. While the reasons for group-living have been studied for decades, little is known about
why individuals become solitary. 2. Several previous experimental studies could …

Kin selection plays an important role in the evolution of social behaviour in terrestrial
systems. The extent to which kin selection influences the evolution of social behaviour in …

With the onset and increasing frequency of multiple disturbances, the recovery potential of
critical ecosystem-building species and their mutual symbionts is threatened. Similar effects …

In social groups, high reproductive skew is predicted to arise when the reproductive output
of a group is limited, and dominant individuals can suppress subordinate reproductive …