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 […]

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

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

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

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...

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