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Natural selection

Joint effects of voluntary participation and group selection on the evolution of altruistic punishment

Hoon C. Shin, Sechindra Vallury, Marco A. Janssen, David J. Yu

The effective family size of immigrant founders predicts their long-term demographic outcome: From Québec settlers to their 20th-century descendants

Damian Labuda, Tommy Harding, Emmanuel Milot, Hélène Vézina

Nest-site selection and its influence on breeding success in a poorly-known and declining seabird: The Tahiti petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata

Angélique Pagenaud, Andreas Ravache, [ ... ], Martin Thibault

What is the best fitness measure in wild populations? A case study on the power of short-term fitness proxies to predict reproductive value

Živa Alif, Jamie Dunning, [ ... ], Julia Schroeder

Motivations to reciprocate cooperation and punish defection are calibrated by estimates of how easily others can switch partners

Sakura Arai, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides

When does selection favor learning from the old? Social learning in age-structured populations

Dominik Deffner, Richard McElreath

Signatures of selection and drivers for novel mutation on transmission-blocking vaccine candidate Pfs25 gene in western Kenya

Kevin O. Ochwedo, Shirley A. Onyango, [ ... ], James W. Kazura

Choosing optimal trigger points for ex situ, in toto conservation of single population threatened species

Kaitlyn Brown, Tamara Tambyah, [ ... ], Michael Bode

Cross-population selection signatures in Canchim composite beef cattle

Igor Nelson Herculano Duarte, Ayrton Fernandes de Oliveira Bessa, [ ... ], Marcos Eli Buzanskas

Limiting factors for queen conch (Lobatus gigas) reproduction: A simulation-based evaluation

Nicholas A. Farmer, Jennifer C. Doerr

Analysis on the stochastic evolution process of low-carbon transformation for supplier groups in construction supply chain

Yaohong Yang, Jing Dai, Yi Zeng, Ying Liu

Great egret (Ardea alba) habitat selection and foraging behavior in a temperate estuary: Comparing natural wetlands to areas with shellfish aquaculture

Scott Jennings, David Lumpkin, [ ... ], John P. Kelly

Demographic profiles and environmental drivers of variation relate to individual breeding state in a long-lived trans-oceanic migratory seabird, the Manx shearwater

Matt J. Wood, Coline Canonne, [ ... ], Cat Horswill

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