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Carsten Schradin

Title: Mammalian Social Evolution. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 01 September 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. The evolution of intraspecific variation in social organization.

  2. Comparative studies need to rely both on sound natural history data and on excellent statistical analysis.

  3. Reproductive competition favours solitary living while ecological constraints impose group-living in African striped mice.

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Loren Hayes

Title: Consequences of communal breeding in a strange rodent, Octodon degus. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 08 September 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. The modulating role of group stability on fitness effects of group size is different in females and males of a communally rearing rodent.

  2. Mean ecological conditions modulate the effects of group living and communal rearing on offspring production and survival.

  3. Male group members are costly to plurally breeding Octodon degus females.

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Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Title: The great unknown, what we (do not) know about solitary floaters in pair-living sexually monogamous primates. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 15 September 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Till death (or an intruder) do us part: intrasexual-competition in a monogamous primate.

  2. The floater's dilemma: use of space by wild solitary Azara's owl monkeys, Aotus azarae, in relation to group ranges.

  3. Natal dispersal in monogamous owl monkeys (Aotus azarai) of the Argentinean Chaco.

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Aaron Sandel

Title: Within-species variation, data quality, and the aims of primatology. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 22 September 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Data quality and the comparative method: the case of pregnancy failure in rodents.

  2. Data quality and the comparative method: the case of primate group size.

  3. Assessing sources of error in comparative analyses of primate behavior: Intraspecific variation in group size and the social brain hypothesis

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Michael Taborsky

Title: Shell-brooding Cichlids as Evolutionary Model for Intrasexual and Intersexual Conflict. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 29 September 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Reproductive investment of giants and dwarfs: specialized tactics in a cichlid fish with alternative male morphs.

  2. Alternative male morphs solve sperm performance/longevity trade-off in opposite directions.

  3. Y-linked Mendelian inheritance of giant and dwarf male morphs in shell-brooding cichlids.

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Sarie Van Belle

Title: Intergroup dynamics in howler monkeys. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 06 October 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. The influence of loud calls on intergroup spacing mechanisms in black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra).

  2. Individual participation in intergroup contests is mediated by numerical assessment strategies in black howler and tufted capuchin monkeys.

  3. Social and genetic factors mediating male participation in collective group defence in black howler monkeys.

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Jordan S. Martin

Title: Comparative Approaches to the Evolution of Human Sociality. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 13 October 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Harsh environments promote alloparental care across human societies.

  2. Hunter-gatherers maintain assortativity in cooperation despite high levels of residential change and mixing.

  3. Hunter-gatherer multilevel sociality accelerates cumulative cultural evolution.

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Delia Shelton

Title: Wild tales of other finned kin, environments affect all within. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 20 October 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Density and group size influence shoal cohesion, but not coordination in zebrafish (Danio rerio).

  2. Collective Behavior in Wild Zebrafish.

  3. Water flow impacts group behavior in zebrafish (Danio rerio).

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Karen Strier

Title: Implications of social evolution and behavioral flexibility for primate conservation and management. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 27 October 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. The temporal scale of behavioral and demographic flexibility: Implications for comparative analyses and conservation. In Primate Life History, Sex Roles, and Adaptability: Essays in honour of Linda M. Fedigan.

  2. Primate social behavior.

  3. What does variation in primate behavior mean?

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Peter Kappeler

Title: Lemur Social Evolution. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 03 November 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Evolutionary transitions toward pair living in nonhuman primates as stepping stones toward more complex societies.

  2. A framework for studying social complexity.

  3. Eco-evo-devo of the lemur syndrome: did adaptive behavioral plasticity get canalized in a large primate radiation?

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Dan Blumstein

Title: Insights from an emergent view of sociality. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 10 November 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Yellow-bellied marmots: insights from an emergent view of sociality.

  2. Strong social relationships are associated with decreased longevity in a facultatively social mammal.

  3. Corrigendum to “Social security: less socially connected marmots produce noisier alarm calls.”

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Christina Riehl

Title: Cooperation and Climate in the Neotropics: Fitness effects of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on a cooperatively breeding bird. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 17 November 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Impacts of changing rainfall regime on the demography of tropical birds.

  2. Living with strangers: direct benefits favour non-kin cooperation in a communally nesting bird.

  3. Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds.

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Kay Holekamp

Title: Social Evolution in Hyenas. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 24 November 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Genetic relatedness and space use in two populations of striped hyenas (Hyaena hyaena).

  2. The evolution of matrilineal social systems in fissiped carnivores.

  3. Social alliances improve rank and fitness in convention-based societies.

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Marta Manser

Title: Vocal diversity and its evolution in animals. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 01 December 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Bound for Specific Sounds: Vocal Predisposition in Animal Communication.

  2. Vocal complexity in meerkats and other mongoose species.

  3. Cooperative breeding influences the number and type of vocalizations in avian lineages.

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Leticia Aviles

Title: The ecology of spider sociality. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 08 December 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Social Spiders. In Encyclopedia of Social Insects.

  2. A Quantitative Index of Sociality and Its Application to Group-Living Spiders and Other Social Organisms.

  3. Cooperative capture of large prey solves scaling challenge faced by spider societies.

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Romain Libbrecht

Title: The Evolution of Eusociality in Ants. Link to Recorded Talk.

Date: 15 December 2020

Suggested Readings:

  1. Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants.

  2. Back to the roots: the importance of using simple insect societies to understand the molecular basis of complex social life.

  3. Robust DNA Methylation in the Clonal Raider Ant Brain.

 
 

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