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]
I was invited to give a talk at a workshop “Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks” at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) at the Ohio State University, organized by Ian Hamilton and Keith Warren. I presented my talk “Using dynamics of network interactions to infer social rules” remotely.… [Read full details]
I attended the Cultural Evolution Society meeting in Tempe, Arizona and presenting a talk called “The evolution of socio-cultural conflict strategies”.
This talk focused on recent work with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo, which is available as a preprint on arXiv.… [Read full details]
My new paper, co-authored with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo, is now available as a preprint on arXiv.
The question of what animals understand about their social worlds is fundamental to studies of the evolution of sociality, cognition, and animal culture.… [Read full details]
My recent paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies”, led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in Hungarian, I think!) by the website greenfo.
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I gave a talk called “Detecting the Basis of Sociocultural Complexity in Animals and Humans” in the satellite meeting “Evolution of Cultural Complexity”, which was part of the Complex Systems Society Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The talk was co-authored with Dan Mønster and Simon DeDeo.… [Read full details]
I gave a talk at the Conference on Complex Systems in Thessaloniki, Greece.
My talk was called “Signals of quality vs. individual recognition: A model of the tradeoffs in assessment strategies” co-authored with Eleanor Harris.… [Read full details]
My recent paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies”, led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in French!) by the website Sciences et Avenir.
SFI’s press team wrote up a nice press release for my recent paper, led by Jonathan Pruitt.
From SFI News:
In relatively cool temperatures, Anelosimus studiosus spiders lay their eggs and spin their webs and share their prey in cooperative colonies from Massachusetts to Argentina.