Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE
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International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE).
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The FINE Seminar allows students and researchers from all over the world to meet online.
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https://www.youtube.com/@seminaronfrontiersinsocial1478
The FINE Seminar allows students and researchers from all over the world to meet online.
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An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD)
Co-BreeD is the first updatable and open-source database dedicated to cooperative breeding. It enables continuous, non-binary measurement of cooperative breeding, transforming how we study breeding s....
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October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Shared foraging grounds in a solitary rodent: evidence for mutual tolerance and kin-based spatial overlap?
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October 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
Overall, our findings indicate mutual tolerance between neighbours of this solitary species in relation to shared foraging grounds. This mutual tolerance may facilitate spatial overlap among kin and could represent a precursor to more complex cooperative behaviour.
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
An integrative, peer‐reviewed and open‐source cooperative‐breeding database (Co‐BreeD) - Ben Mocha - Journal of Animal Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE)
• Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution.
• Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...
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October 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
21 October, 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
Ally Harari, Department of Entomology, ARO Volcani Center, Israel
Title: Decision making in relation to sex in a moth
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Note that there will be no FINE the 7th Oct and 14th Oct.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
FINE will be back 21st Oct with a talk by Alli Harari.
Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Special FINE 30th September 2025
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
60min panel talks followed by 60min general discussion
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45
urosario.zoom.us/j/83337249371
Meeting ID: 833 3724 9371
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
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Reposted by Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice
Perrier et al. show that wild African striped mice (R. pumilio) use short-range ultrasonic
signals for large-scale communication. By vocalizing at key territorial locations,
they extend the functional...
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September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Ultrasonic signals support a large-scale communication landscape in wild mice: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
DONT miss todays FINE
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
September 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
DONT miss todays FINE
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
23rd September, James Tumulty, Rhodes College, USA
Title: Evidence of a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition in a paper wasp.
Live on YoutTube 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paris
www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Today FINE
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
9th September, Adam Reddon, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
17:00 Paris / 11:00 New York
Title: Conflict management in social fishes
Zoom link opens at 16 :45 /10:45 urosario.zoom.us/j/82256099694
Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
September 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Join us tomorrow for the first FINE of the Fall 2025:
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
2nd September, Andrew Bass, Cornell University (USA)
Title: Crystal Clear Brains: Benefits & Tradeoffs of Miniaturization in Danionella Fishes
When: 2nd September, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
August 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
FINE Fall 2025 will start in just 4 weeks.
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
Here is the preliminary program.
Stay tuned!
Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.
May 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Here is a first glimpse of our program in fall, FINE season 11. The full program will be available in August.
Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE)
• Meet weekly with people worldwide who are fascinated by social evolution.
• Hear talks about sociality of naturally occurring p...
www.youtube.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Last week season 10 of Fine finished.
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
You can watch each of the exciting talks we had in this and all previous seasons on our YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/@seminaronfr...
TODAYS FINE 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paeris
Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia
The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards
Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia
The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards
Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
May 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
TODAYS FINE 11:00 New York / 17:00 Paeris
Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia
The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards
Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Geoff While, University of Tasmania, Australia
The Evolutionary Ecology of Family Living in Lizards
Australian lizards exhibit remarkable diversity in social organization based around family life.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
May 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
TODAYS FINE, May 13th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Erin Siracussa, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Title: Social ageing: Toward a deeper understanding of the intersection between sociality and senescence
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Tuesday, May 6th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas
Live on zoom for subscribers.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas
Live on zoom for subscribers.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
May 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Tuesday, May 6th 2025, 11 AM NYC / 5 PM Paris
Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas
Live on zoom for subscribers.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Eli Strauss, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Title: Exploring nepotistic societies with spotted hyenas
Live on zoom for subscribers.
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
In case you missed the live FINE on Tuesday, you can watch here the amazing talk by Isabella Capelini about the evolution of parental care in amphibians.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...
29 April 2025, Isabella Capelini, Parental Care in Amphibians
YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
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May 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In case you missed the live FINE on Tuesday, you can watch here the amazing talk by Isabella Capelini about the evolution of parental care in amphibians.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEun...
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The homepage on solitary living has just been updated. Let me know if you have any publications, commentaries, as well as descriptions of your solitary study species and yourself to be included into our next Newsletter and the homepage.
solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....
solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....
Researchers
Here you can introduce yourself. Please send us to solitary.living.evolution@gmail.com profiles of yourself, your students, your colleagues, following the same format as in the examples you find...
solitaryliving.weebly.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The homepage on solitary living has just been updated. Let me know if you have any publications, commentaries, as well as descriptions of your solitary study species and yourself to be included into our next Newsletter and the homepage.
solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....
solitaryliving.weebly.com/researchers....
TODAYS FINE
April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.
How to attend:
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Zoom: Ask for the link
April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.
How to attend:
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Zoom: Ask for the link
April 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
TODAYS FINE
April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.
How to attend:
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Zoom: Ask for the link
April 29th 2025, Isabella Capelini, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
Title: Drivers and consequences of the evolution of parental care diversity in amphibians.
How to attend:
YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
Zoom: Ask for the link
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Bush Karoo rats sometimes eat left overs, but do not actively store food. Thus, their dried plant material -plantong - is similar to South African biltong with regards to heat conserving food, but less so in function.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food?
Food storing to cope with food reduction during winter has been observed in many rodents in the northern hemisphere. Food storing could also be adapti…
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April 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Bush Karoo rats sometimes eat left overs, but do not actively store food. Thus, their dried plant material -plantong - is similar to South African biltong with regards to heat conserving food, but less so in function.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Watch here last weeks FINE by Mike Webster about
Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...
Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...
15th April 2025, Mike Webster: Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens
YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
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April 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Watch here last weeks FINE by Mike Webster about
Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...
Sexual signals & divergence in Australian fairywrens: From genes to behavior to speciation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNMD...
Todays FINE
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski
Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina
April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski
Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina
April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
April 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Todays FINE
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski
Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina
April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
FINE SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
April 22nd, Martín Kowaleski
Title: Life history traits and social dynamics in black and gold howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) in northern Argentina
April 22nd, presentation starts at 11:00 NYC / 17:00 Paris.
YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...