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Endocranial and masticatory muscle volumes in myostatin-deficient mice
(The Royal Society, 2014)
Structural and functional trade-offs are integral to the evolution of the mammalian skull and its development. This paper examines the potential for enlargement of the masticatory musculature to limit the size of the ...
Female signalling tomale song in the domestic canary, serinus canaria
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Most studies on sexual selection focus on male characteristics such as male song in songbirds. Yet female vocalizations in songbirds are growing in interest among behavioural and evolutionary biologists because these ...
Exploring the evolution of a trade off between vigilance and foraging in group living organisms
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Even though grouping behaviour has been actively studied for over a century, the relative importance of the numerous proposed fitness benefits of grouping remain unclear. We use a digital model of evolving prey under ...
Eye spots in Lepidoptera attract attention in humans
(The Royal Society, 2015)
Many prey species exhibit defensive traits to decrease their chances of predation. Conspicuous eye-spots, concentric rings of contrasting colours, are one type of defensive trait that some species exhibit to deter predators. ...
Position dependent hearing in three species of bushcrickets
(The Royal Society, 2015)
A primary task of auditory systems is the localization of sound sources in space. Sound source localization in azimuth is usually based on temporal or intensity differences of sounds between the bilaterally arranged ears. ...
Baleen boomand bust
(The Royal Society, 2015)
A new, fully dated total-evidence phylogeny of baleen whales (Mysticeti) shows that evolutionary phases correlate strongly with Caenozoic modernization of the oceans and climates, implying a major role for bottom-up physical ...
The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010
(The Royal Society, 2015)
In modern societies, cultural change seems ceaseless. The flux of fashion is especially obvious for popular music. While much has been written about the origin and evolution of pop, most claims about its history are anecdotal ...
Trophic niche divergence among colour morphs that exhibit alternative mating tactics
(2016)
Discrete colour morphs associated with alternative mating tactics are assumed to be ecologically equivalent. Yet suites of behaviours linked with reproduction can also favour habitat segregation and exploitation of different ...
Selfishmothers indeed. Resource-dependent conflict over extended parental care in free-ranging dogs
(2015)
Parent off spring conflict (POC) theory provides an interesting premise for understanding social dynamics in facultatively social species. In free-ranging dogs, mothers increase conflict over extended parental care with ...
Attack risk for butterflies changes with eyespot number and size
(2016)
Butterfly eyespots are known to function in predator deflection and predator intimidation, but it is still unclear what factors cause eyespots to serve one function over the other. Both functions have been demonstrated in ...