In spotted hyenas, "social inheritance of privilege is a powerful driver of reproductive inequality" paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee7880 press release […] [Original post on fediscience.org]
Nikos Smit
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at utu; social behaviour/ life history; some bg in discr. maths ∧ theor. comp. science 🌉 bridged from https://ecoevo.social/@nikos on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution Website […]
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Wild female gorillas live long after their last baby is born. Do they go through menopause? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510998122
MSc thesis! How does distance to kin influences adult survival?
"Sexual selection and parental care shape lifespan differences" across mammals and birds https://www.mpg.de/25470066/0926-evan-why-women-live-longer-than-men-150495-x?c=2249
Why women live longer than men
Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men
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Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple https://theconversation.com/whos-got-the-power-studies-of-male-and-female-primates-show-its-not-simple-263292
Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple
Most primate societies do not have clear-cut sex-biases when it comes to power.
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The majority of animals do show various forms of hierarchy - but is the concept of ‚alpha‘ relevant or even real? https://www.livescience.com/animals/are-alpha-males-real
Are alpha males real?
The term "alpha male" was coined in 1970 to describe wolves. But what does science think about the term now?
livescience.com
It's not all about size. New research on female #gorillas challenges the male power narrative. Study by @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy & Martha Robbins now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. #primates @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @utu.fi More: tinyurl.com/y778faw2 & www.cell.com/current-biol...
It's not all about size
Female gorillas challenge the male power narrative
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Female mountain gorillas can outrank males twice their size... ...and exhibit priority of access to resources over these males Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225008723 Press release: https://www.mpg.de/25119311/0730-evan-it-s-not-just-about-size-150495-x
Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122 press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249