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Charles L. Nunn
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 207
Citations - 14533
Charles L. Nunn is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Sleep in non-human animals. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 201 publications receiving 13113 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles L. Nunn include University of California, Berkeley & National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.
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Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies
Sonia Altizer,Charles L. Nunn,Peter H. Thrall,John L. Gittleman,Janis Antonovics,Andrew A. Cunningham,Andrew P. Dobson,Vanessa O. Ezenwa,Vanessa O. Ezenwa,Kate E. Jones,Amy B. Pedersen,Mary Poss,Juliet R. C. Pulliam +12 more
TL;DR: The effects of host density and social contacts on parasite spread and the importance of promiscuity and mating structure for the spread and evolution of sexually transmitted diseases are reviewed.
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The 10kTrees Website: A New Online Resource for Primate Phylogeny
TL;DR: A new resource for comparative studies of primates that enables users to run comparative analyses on multiple primate phylogenies and uses recent systematic methods to create a plausible set of topologies that reflect certainty about some nodes on the tree and uncertainty about other nodes, given the dataset.
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The evolution of self-control
Evan L. MacLean,Brian Hare,Charles L. Nunn,Elsa Addessi,Federica Amici,Rindy C. Anderson,Filippo Aureli,Filippo Aureli,Joseph M. Baker,Amanda E. Bania,Allison M. Barnard,Neeltje J. Boogert,Elizabeth M. Brannon,Emily E. Bray,Joel Bray,Lauren J. N. Brent,Judith M. Burkart,Josep Call,Jessica F. Cantlon,Lucy G. Cheke,Nicola S. Clayton,Mikel M. Delgado,Louis DiVincenti,Kazuo Fujita,Esther Herrmann,Chihiro Hiramatsu,Lucia F. Jacobs,Kerry E. Jordan,Jennifer R. Laude,Kristin L. Leimgruber,Emily J. E. Messer,Antonio Christian de A. Moura,Ljerka Ostojić,Alejandra Morales Picard,Michael L. Platt,Joshua M. Plotnik,Friederike Range,Simon M. Reader,Rachna B. Reddy,Aaron A. Sandel,Laurie R. Santos,Katrin Schumann,Amanda M. Seed,Kendra B. Sewall,Rachael C. Shaw,Katie E. Slocombe,Yanjie Su,Ayaka Takimoto,Jingzhi Tan,Ruoting Tao,Carel P. van Schaik,Zsófia Virányi,Elisabetta Visalberghi,Jordan C. Wade,Arii Watanabe,Jane Widness,Julie K. Young,Thomas R. Zentall,Yini Zhao +58 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that increases in absolute brain size provided the biological foundation for evolutionary increases in self-control, and implicate species differences in feeding ecology as a potential selective pressure favoring these skills.
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Stepwise Model Fitting and Statistical Inference: Turning Noise into Signal Pollution
Roger Mundry,Charles L. Nunn +1 more
TL;DR: This study amplifies previous warnings about using stepwise procedures and recommends that biologists refrain from applying these methods, by using a simple simulation design.
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Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primates.
TL;DR: Host population density, a key determinant of parasite spread in many epidemiological models, was associated consistently with total parasite species richness and the diversity of helminths, protozoa, and viruses tested separately.