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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:
New paper: "Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination" (Open Access)
w/ Robert Baird, @imprintedgene, Jan Ševčík, Katy Monteith, Laura Ross & @lepidoctorist
X chromosomes evolve faster than autosomes, but confounding factors make this a difficult phenomenon to study. Utilising the unusual sex determination system of Sciaridae flies, this study finds a slower evolution of the X chromosomes which appears to be driven by strong purifying selection.
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
@journal_evo Image: ChatGPT
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
@journal_evo Image: ChatGPT
New paper: "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis", with Bing Dong (Open Access):
Chedhawat (Tim) has given an online seminar about this sex-ratio work, here:
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:
