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Ignorance can be evolutionarily beneficial
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
Information is increasingly being viewed as a resource used by organisms to increase their fitness. Indeed, it has been formally shown that there is a sensible way to assign a repr…
Evolutionary stability and the rarity of grandmothering
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
The provision of intergenerational care, via the Grandmother Hypothesis, has been implicated in the evolution of post-fertile longevity, particularly in humans. However, if grandmo…
The evolution of sleep is inevitable
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
There are two contrasting explanations of sleep: as a proximate, essential physiological function or as an adaptive state of inactivity and these hypotheses remain widely debated.…
The Critical Domain Size of Stochastic Population Models
Jody R. Reimer, Michael B. Bonsall, Philip K. Maini
Identifying the critical domain size necessary for a population to persist is an important question in ecology. Both demographic and environmental stochasticity impact a population…