Behavioral Evolution

Recent Papers

Open Access

Niche Construction Affects the Variability and Strength of Natural Selection

Andrew D. Clark, Dominik Deffner, Kevin Laland, John Odling-Smee, and John Endler

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Clark.html

Open Access

The Evolutionary Origin of Associative Learning

Anselmo C. Pontes, Robert B. Mobley, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, and Fred C. Dyer

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Pontes.html

The Evolution of Indiscriminate Altruism in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal

Chris Duncan, David Gaynor, Tim Clutton-Brock, and Mark Dyble

Blog and abstract: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JuneDuncan.html

Gene-Culture Coinheritance of a Behavioral Trait

Elliot G. Aguilar and Erol Akçay

Should I Change or Should I Go? Phenotypic Plasticity and Matching Habitat Choice in the Adaptation to Environmental Heterogeneity

Pim Edelaar, Roger Jovani, and Ivan Gomez-Mestre

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctEdelaar.html

Synthesis

Comparative Analyses of Phenotypic Trait Covariation within and among Populations

Kathryn S. Peiman and Beren W. Robinson

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/OctPeiman.html

Genetic Correlations among Developmental and Contextual Behavioral Plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster

Julia B. Saltz, Seana Lymer, Jessica Gabrielian, and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/JulySaltz.html

Fitness Consequences of Boldness in Juvenile and Adult Largemouth Bass

Nicholas G. Ballew, Gary G. Mittelbach, and Kim T. Scribner

Lay summary: http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/AprBallew.html