Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
I hosted a working group at the Santa Fe Institute this week on sexual selection. Emily DuVal, Courtney Fitzpatrick, Maria Servedio and I brainstormed how to tweak some existing modeling approaches to better address some of the outstanding questions in sexual selection.… [Read full details]
My new paper “What are we missing about animal social complexity?” was just released as a preprint on arXiv. It’s also in review at Animal Behaviour as part of a special issue organized by Rafa Rodriguez (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) that came out of a symposium he organized called “What Are We Not Asking About The Evolution of Behavior That We Should Be Asking” at this summer’s Animal Behavior Conference.… [Read full details]