Social complexity and kinship in animal societies

Why are there so many explanations for primate brain evolution?

(2017) R. I. M. Dunbar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality

(2017) Alex R. DeCasien et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Variation in growth of Damaraland mole-rats is explained by competition rather than by functional specialization for different tasks

(2016) Markus Zöttl et al.   Biology Letters

Insect societies and the social brain

(2016) Sarah M Farris   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Measuring social complexity

(2015) Thore J. Bergman et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cognitive consequences of cooperative breeding? A critical appraisal

(2015) A. Thornton et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Group Formation, Relatedness, and the Evolution of Multicellularity

(2013) Roberta M. Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reciprocity explains food sharing in humans and other primates independent of kin selection and tolerated scrounging: a phylogenetic meta-analysis

(2013) A. V. Jaeggi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social complexity as a proximate and ultimate factor in communicative complexity

(2012) T. M. Freeberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societies

(2012) D. Lukas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Evolutionary Origins of Friendship

(2011) Robert M. Seyfarth et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure

(2011) K. R. Hill et al.   SCIENCE

General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

(2010) J. D. HADFIELD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies

(2010) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   NATURE

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Primates, brains and ecology

(2009) T. H. Clutton-Brock et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality

(2009) J. J. Boomsma   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Kin structure, ecology and the evolution of social organization in shrimp: a comparative analysis

(2009) J. E. Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancestral Monogamy Shows Kin Selection Is Key to the Evolution of Eusociality

(2008) W. O. H. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE