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Uncertainty about social interactions leads to the evolution of social heuristics

Nature Communications, 2018
Humans are known to use social heuristics to make intuitive decisions on whether to cooperate. Here, the authors show with evolutionary simulations that social heuristics can be an adaptive solution to uncertainties about the consequences of cooperation ...
Pieter van den Berg, Tom Wenseleers
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Study on the spatiotemporal distribution of Neolithic settlement clusters based on complex social evolution: Evidence from the Dongting Lake Basin [PDF]

PLoS One
Du X, Cai J, Gong W, Liu Y, Jiang C, Hu H, Liu S, Chen Q.   +7 more
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DNMT1 mutant ants develop normally but have disrupted oogenesis

Nature Communications, 2023
Although DNA methylation is an important gene regulatory mechanism in mammals, its function in arthropods remains poorly understood. Studies in eusocial insects have argued for its role in caste development by regulating gene expression and splicing ...
Iryna Ivasyk, Leonora Olivos-Cisneros, Stephany Valdés-Rodríguez, Marie Droual, Hosung Jang, Robert J. Schmitz, Daniel J. C. Kronauer   +6 more
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Social evolution in times of COVID-19 between politics, economics, and health [PDF]

Strategic Management, 2021
As well as highlighting difficulties in the health sector at local, national, and international levels, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed states in crisis by questioning the model of globalization, the political system, and the economic system.
Figus Alessandro
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Clonal raider ant brain transcriptomics identifies candidate molecular mechanisms for reproductive division of labor

BMC Biology, 2018
Background Division of labor between reproductive queens and workers that perform brood care is a hallmark of insect societies. However, studies of the molecular basis of this fundamental dichotomy are limited by the fact that the caste of an individual ...
Romain Libbrecht, Peter R. Oxley, Daniel J. C. Kronauer   +2 more
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anTraX, a software package for high-throughput video tracking of color-tagged insects

eLife, 2020
Recent years have seen a surge in methods to track and analyze animal behavior. Nevertheless, tracking individuals in closely interacting, group-living organisms remains a challenge.
Asaf Gal, Jonathan Saragosti, Daniel JC Kronauer   +2 more
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Resilience Lost: Intersecting Land Use and Landscape Dynamics in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States

Ecology and Society, 2006
The interdisciplinary framework known as resilience theory used by ecologists, social scientists, as well as policy makers, is primarily concerned with the sources of transformation and stability in complex socioecological systems.
Matthew A. Peeples, C. Michael. Barton, Steven Schmich   +2 more
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Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants

eLife, 2018
Mollicutes, a widespread class of bacteria associated with animals and plants, were recently identified as abundant abdominal endosymbionts in healthy workers of attine fungus-farming leaf-cutting ants.
Panagiotis Sapountzis, Mariya Zhukova, Jonathan Z Shik, Morten Schiott, Jacobus J Boomsma   +4 more
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Correction to: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches

BMC Biology, 2018
Reinvestigation of the raw data revealed an unfortunate error in Ugelvig et al. 2008 [1].
Line V. Ugelvig, Falko P. Drijfhout, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, Jacobus J. Boomsma, Jes S. Pedersen, Sylvia Cremer   +5 more
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Obesity stigma as a globalizing health challenge

Globalization and Health, 2018
Background Based on studies conducted in the global north, it is well documented that those who feel stigmatized by overweight/obesity can suffer extreme emotional distress, be subject to (often legal and socially-acceptable) discrimination, and adjust ...
Alexandra Brewis, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Amber Wutich   +2 more
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