Natural selection favours genes that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.
This would appear to lead to a world dominated by selfish behaviour. However, cooperation …

The occurrence of cooperation poses a problem for the biological and social sciences.
However, many aspects of the biological and social science literatures on this subject have …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the
prehistoric exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory distance to various …

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

Individual recognition (IR) behavior has been widely studied, uncovering spectacular
recognition abilities across a range of taxa and modalities. Most studies of IR focus on the …

Although social behavior in vertebrates spans a continuum from solitary to highly social, taxa
are often dichotomized as either 'social'or 'non‐social'. We argue that this social dichotomy is …

The social decisions that individuals make—who to interact with and how frequently—give
rise to social structure. The resulting social structure then determines how individuals …

The focus of acoustic communication studies differs between birds and primates due to
differences between the avian and primate social structures. Contact calls exist in almost all …