Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
My recent paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies”, led by Jonathan Pruitt, was covered (in Hungarian, I think!) by the website greenfo.
2018.… [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.
Our new paper, “Social tipping points in animal societies” was published! This was a fun effort with a great group of people, and is my first paper as “anchor author”.
Paper (open access) available from Proceedings B
Animal social groups are complex systems that are likely to exhibit tipping points—which are defined as drastic shifts in the dynamics of systems that arise from small changes in environmental conditions—yet this concept has not been carefully applied to these systems.… [Read full details]