Conclusion and Future Directions Cooperation and sociality are widespread ... Genetic structure clearly influences the evolution of animal sociality. But do genes themselves influence an ...

“If organisms have different natural growth rates, a behavior previously termed cooperation can persist even when classic game theory models predict its decline. At the same time the comparison ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...