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Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations (2020)
Journal Article
Cooney, C. R., Sheard, C., Clark, A. D., Healy, S. D., Liker, A., Street, S. E., Troisi, C. A., Thomas, G. H., Székely, T., Hemmings, N., & Wright, A. E. (2020). Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 2383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16257-x

The duration of the developmental period represents a fundamental axis of life-history variation, yet broad insights regarding the drivers of this diversity are currently lacking. Here, we test mechanistic and ecological explanations for the evolutio... Read More about Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations.

Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates (2019)
Journal Article
Powell, L. E., Barton, R. A., & Street, S. E. (2019). Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1911), Article 20191608. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1608

Life history is a robust correlate of relative brain size: larger-brained mammals and birds have slower life histories and longer lifespans than smaller-brained species. The cognitive buffer hypothesis (CBH) proposes an adaptive explanation for this... Read More about Maternal investment, life histories, and the evolution of brain structure in primates.

Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning (2018)
Journal Article
Street, S. E., Morgan, T. J., Thornton, A., Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N., & Cross, C. P. (2018). Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1715. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19770-8

Women appear to copy other women’s preferences for men’s faces. This ‘mate-choice copying’ is often taken as evidence of psychological adaptations for processing social information related to mate choice, for which facial information is assumed to be... Read More about Human mate-choice copying is domain-general social learning.

Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates (2017)
Journal Article
Street, S., Navarrete, A., Reader, S., & Laland, K. (2017). Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(30), 7908-7914. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1620734114

Explanations for primate brain expansion and the evolution of human cognition and culture remain contentious despite extensive research. While multiple comparative analyses have investigated variation in brain size across primate species, very few ha... Read More about Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates.

Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, W., Street, S., & Capellini, I. (2017). Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles. Ecology Letters, 20(2), 222-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12728

Competing theoretical models make different predictions on which life history strategies facilitate growth of small populations. While ‘fast’ strategies allow for rapid increase in population size and limit vulnerability to stochastic events, ‘slow’... Read More about Fast life history traits promote invasion success in amphibians and reptiles.

Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution. (2016)
Book Chapter
Street, S., & Laland, K. (2016). Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution. In S. V. Shepherd (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience (495-513). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118316757.ch18

Social learning-learning influenced by observation of, or interaction with, other animals -allows individuals to acquire information, concerning, for instance, the location and quality of food, mates, predators, rivals, and pathways, as well as forag... Read More about Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution..

The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates (2016)
Journal Article
Navarrete, A., Reader, S., Street, S., Whalen, A., & Laland, K. (2016). The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1690), Article 20150186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0186

In birds and primates, the frequency of behavioural innovation has been shown to covary with absolute and relative brain size, leading to the suggestion that large brains allow animals to innovate, and/or that selection for innovativeness, together w... Read More about The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates.

Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition (2016)
Journal Article
Street, S., Cross, C., & Brown, G. (2016). Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition. Animal Behaviour, 112, 203-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.023

In some species of Old World monkeys and apes, females exhibit exaggerated swellings of the anogenital region that vary in size across the ovarian cycle. Exaggerated swellings are typically largest around the time of ovulation, and swelling size has... Read More about Exaggerated sexual swellings in female nonhuman primates are reliable signals of female fertility and body condition.

The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success (2015)
Journal Article
Capellini, I., Baker, J., Allen, W., Street, S., & Venditti, C. (2015). The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success. Ecology Letters, 18(10), 1099-1107. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12493

Why some organisms become invasive when introduced into novel regions while others fail to even establish is a fundamental question in ecology. Barriers to success are expected to filter species at each stage along the invasion pathway. No study to d... Read More about The role of life history traits in mammalian invasion success.

The coevolution of building nests on the ground and domed nests in Timaliidae (2015)
Journal Article
Hall, Z., Street, S., Auty, S., & Healy, S. (2015). The coevolution of building nests on the ground and domed nests in Timaliidae. Ornithology, 132(3), 584-593. https://doi.org/10.1642/auk-15-23.1

Despite the accumulation of structural descriptions of bird nests and considerable diversity in these structures across species, we know little about why birds build the nests that they do. Here we used phylogenetic comparative analyses to test one s... Read More about The coevolution of building nests on the ground and domed nests in Timaliidae.