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An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology
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This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 287 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecology (disciplines).read more
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Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence.
Peter J. Richerson,Ryan Baldini,Adrian Bell,Kathryn Demps,Karl Frost,Vicken Hillis,Sarah Mathew,Emily K. Newton,Nicole Naar,Lesley Newson,Cody T. Ross,Paul E. Smaldino,Timothy M. Waring,Matthew R. Zefferman +13 more
TL;DR: This target article sketches the evidence from five domains that bear on the explanatory adequacy of cultural group selection and competing hypotheses to explain human cooperation and presents evidence, including quantitative evidence, that the answer to all of the questions is “yes” and argues that it is not clear that any extant alternative tocultural group selection can be a complete explanation.
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The use of bioacoustics in anuran taxonomy: theory, terminology, methods and recommendations for best practice
Jörn Köhler,Martin Jansen,Ariel Rodríguez,Philippe J. R. Kok,Luís Felipe Toledo,Mike Emmrich,Frank Glaw,Célio F. B. Haddad,Mark-Oliver Rödel,Miguel Vences +9 more
TL;DR: It is shown that small-sized frogs often emit calls with frequency components in the ultrasound spectrum, although it is unlikely that these high frequencies are of biological relevance for the majority of them, and it is illustrated that detection of upper harmonics depends also on recording distance because higher frequencies are attenuated more strongly.
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Evolutionary Theory and the Ultimate–Proximate Distinction in the Human Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: This article focuses on three specific areas: the evolution of cooperation, transmitted culture, and epigenetics, and suggests ways in which misunderstanding may be avoided in the future.
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Tinbergen's four questions: an appreciation and an update
Patrick Bateson,Kevin N. Laland +1 more
TL;DR: This year is the 50th anniversary of Tinbergen's article 'On aims and methods of ethology', where he first outlined the four 'major problems of biology', and it would seem a suitable opportunity to reflect on the four questions and evaluate the scientific work that they encourage.
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Sociality: The Behaviour of Group-Living Animals
TL;DR: In Animal Social Behaviour as discussed by the authors, the authors integrate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research to provide a new synthesis of the field, which is aimed at fellow researchers and postgraduate students on the topic.
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Where is behavioural ecology going
TL;DR: This work attempts to identify the key outstanding questions in behavioural ecology and suggests that researchers must make greater use of model organisms and evolutionary genetics in order to make substantial progress on these topics.