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It takes two: Heritable male effects on reproductive timing but not clutch size in a wild bird population.
(Wiley, 20 April 2020)Within-population variation in the traits underpinning reproductive output has long been of central interest to biologists. Since they are strongly linked to lifetime reproductive success, these traits are expected to be ... -
Mothers with higher twinning propensity had lower fertility in pre-industrial Europe
(Nature Research, 24 May 2022)Historically, mothers producing twins gave birth, on average, more often than non-twinners. This observation has been interpreted as twinners having higher intrinsic fertility - a tendency to conceive easily irrespective ... -
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) gaze is conspicuous at ecologically-relevant distances
(Nature Research, 3 June 2022)Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) sclera appear much darker than the white sclera of human eyes, to such a degree that the direction of chimpanzee gaze may be concealed from conspecifics. Recent debate surrounding this topic ... -
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey
(Royal Society, 1 June 2022)Eye gaze is an important source of information for animals, implicated in communication, cooperation, hunting and antipredator behaviour. Gaze perception and its cognitive underpinnings are much studied in primates, but ... -
Sensory-based quantification of male colour patterns in Trinidadian guppies reveals no support for parallel phenotypic evolution in multivariate trait space
(Wiley, 25 June 2021)Parallel evolution, in which independent populations evolve along similar phenotypic trajectories, offers insights into the repeatability of adaptive evolution. Here, we revisit a classic example of parallelism, that of ...