New paper: "Choosy dispersal promotes the evolution of altruism", with Emilija Barteškaitė (OpenAccess)

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0589

The 'Power of Two Random Choices' principle of load balancing may explain the evolution of altruism in viscous populations

New paper: "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality", with Kalyani Twyman (Open Access):

https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf141

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New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn:

https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voaf088

New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with Kalyani Twyman (Open Access)

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf093

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New paper: "Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping" (Open Access)

with Tom Scott & Geoff Wild (@geoffwild)

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf032

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New paper: "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis", with Bing Dong (Open Access):

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70806

New paper: "Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio" (Open Access), with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0378

Sex-ratio optima for haplodiploid parents converge in viscous populations when dispersal is density-dependent

One of my undergraduate students, Callum Ferrando, has just published a comic in Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

You can find "Taylor's famous result" here:

https://doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae110

New paper: "Kin selection as a modulator of human handedness: sex-specific, parental & parent-of-origin effects" (OpenAccess), with Bing Dong & Silvia Paracchini (@silParacchini):

https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2024.24

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