Larval ecology, dispersal, and the evolution of sociality in the sea

Abstract

Dispersal, or lack there of, has long been thought to play a crucial role in the evolution of sociality because individual dispersal decisions shape the kin structure of social groups (Brown, 1974;

The Evolution of Social Behaviour

“…Accordingly, this special issue contains a bouquet of contributions. The issue includes Perspective and Reviews papers asking how cooperative breeding may help or hinder coping with environmental change (Komdeur & Ma, 2021), highlighting the possibility that sociality is more widespread in marine habitats than usually assumed (Mazzei & Rubenstein, 2021), or how individual social competence may further the evolution of sociality and vice versa (Taborsky, 2021). Oliveira and Bshary (2021) propose to include interspecific relationships into social behaviour, and Bender (2021) outlines the potential for ethology to improve the evolutionary understanding of human medical problems.…”