A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence
of viable, natural populations of wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided …

For humans we implicitly assume that the way we do things is the product of social learning
and thus cultural. For animals, this conclusion requires proof. Here, we first review the most …

While advances in biologging have revealed many spectacular animal migrations, it remains
poorly understood how young animals learn to migrate. Even in social species, it is unclear …

The importance of animal behavior to successful wildlife translocations has been
acknowledged in recent decades, and it has been increasingly considered and more …

Trait‐based approaches have received increasing interest among freshwater scientists
given their capacity to predict community structure and biodiversity effects on ecosystem …

Rawls argued that fairness in human societies can be achieved if decisions about the
distribution of societal rewards are made from behind a veil of ignorance, which obscures …

Kin selection theory defines the conditions for which altruism or 'hel**'can be favoured by
natural selection. Tests of this theory in cooperatively breeding animals have focused on the …

Research in medicine and evolutionary biology suggests that the sequencing of parental
investment has a crucial impact on offspring life history and health. Here, we take advantage …

Nongenetic information implies all the forms of biological information not related to genes
and DNA in general. Despite the deep scientific relevance of the concept, we currently lack …

Personality traits, such as the propensity to cooperate, are often inherited from parents to
offspring, but the pathway of inheritance is unclear. Traits could be inherited via genetic or …