Although social behavior in vertebrates spans a continuum from solitary to highly social, taxa
are often dichotomized as either 'social'or 'non‐social'. We argue that this social dichotomy is …

A survey of empirical studies relating mating and parental investment reveals as many
unpredicted patterns as results supporting existing hypotheses. This leaves us with …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

How sociality evolves and is maintained remains a key question in evolutionary biology.
Most studies to date have focused on insects, birds, and mammals but data from a wider …

Dolphins live in complex social systems with a wide variety of grou** and association
patterns. Understanding the spatiotemporal variation of these associations (fission–fusion …

Animal societies of varying complexity have been the favoured testing ground for inclusive
fitness theory, and there is now abundant evidence that kin selection has played a critical …

Choice for mate quality and number of mates are key components of female mating
strategies. We investigated how selection on female choosiness also influences number of …

Lizards, snakes and amphisbaenians (worm lizards) form a monophyletic group (the
squamate reptiles), which contains 9,712 species (Uetz & Hošek, 2015) in 61 families …

Historically, grief and spirituality have been jealously guarded as uniquely human
experiences. Although non-human animal grief has been acknowledged in recent times, its …