… to brain growth stops; the age at maturity t m , when allocation to growth of reproductive tissue
starts; and … author, instead of Mauricio González-Forero. This has been corrected online. …

… We focus on developing conceptual understanding and refer the reader to González-Forero …
do not seem to have been available until recently (González-Forero, 2021). Yet, the dynamic …

Complex cognition and relatively large brains are distributed across various taxa, and many
primarily verbal hypotheses exist to explain such diversity. Yet, mathematical approaches …

Many social behaviors are triggered by social partners. For example, cells in a multicellular
organism often become soma via extrinsically regulated differentiation, while individuals in a …

The biological species concept (BSC) is a common way to define species although it is
ambiguous even when strictly applied. I interpret it here syntactically in four different ways and …

… The signal could thus be maintained in evolutionary time to maintain helping (González‐Forero,
2014). Given the final absence of mother–offspring conflict over helping behaviour, …

Natural selection acts on phenotypes constructed over development, which raises the
question of how development affects evolution. Classic evolutionary theory indicates that …

… of acquiescence does not require resistance costs (for an evaluation of the effect of
resistance and manipulation costs on the evolution of manipulated behaviors, see González-Forero …

Food availability has been proposed as one of the main factors regulating population sizes
in birds. Seabirds have provided evidence for the hypothesis that food depletion due to …

Eusociality, where largely unreproductive offspring help their mothers reproduce, is a major
form of social organization. An increasingly documented feature of eusociality is that mothers …