Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution

L Fromhage, MD Jennions, L Myllymaa… - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A long-standing problem in evolutionary theory is to clarify in what sense (if any) natural
selection cumulatively improves the design of organisms. Various concepts, such as fitness …

How to make an inclusive-fitness model

TW Scott, G Wild - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Social behaviours are typically modelled using neighbour-modulated fitness, which focuses
on individuals having their fitness altered by neighbours. However, these models are either …

Multiple social encounters can eliminate Crozier's paradox and stabilise genetic kin recognition

TW Scott, A Grafen, SA West - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Crozier's paradox suggests that genetic kin recognition will not be evolutionarily stable. The
problem is that more common tags (markers) are more likely to be recognised and helped …

Host–parasite coevolution and the stability of genetic kin recognition

TW Scott, A Grafen, SA West - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - pnas.org
Crozier's paradox suggests that genetic kin recognition will not be evolutionarily stable. The
problem is that more common tags (markers) are more likely to be recognized and helped …

How to make an inclusive-fitness model.

G Wild, T Scott - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Social behaviours are typically modelled using neighbour-modulated fitness, which focuses
on individuals having their fitness altered by neighbours. However, these models are either …

Sex differences in parental response to offspring begging are associated with pair bond strength across birds

SM Caro, K Wu, HA Hofmann - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Mothers, fathers, and offspring regularly clash over how much care offspring receive.
Offspring beg to solicit for more resources—but how much begging is rewarded can depend …