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Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates (2023)
Journal Article
Street, S. E., Gutiérrez, J. S., Allen, W. L., & Capellini, I. (2023). Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates. Nature Communications, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35765-6

Species’ life histories determine population demographics and thus the probability that introduced populations establish and spread. Life histories also influence which species are most likely to be introduced, but how such ‘introduction biases’ aris... Read More about Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates.

Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds (2022)
Journal Article
Street, S. E., Jaques, R., & De Silva, T. N. (2022). Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1989), Article 20221734. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1734

The pendent nests of some weaverbird and icterid species are among the most complex structures built by any animal, but why they have evolved remains to be explained. The precarious attachments and extended entrance tunnels characteristic of these ne... Read More about Convergent evolution of elaborate nests as structural defences in birds.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
Journal Article
Marley, C. L., Pollard, T. M., Barton, R. A., & Street, S. E. (2022). A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(12), Article 158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03260-z

It is widely believed that juvenile male mammals typically engage in higher rates of rough and tumble play (RTP) than do females, in preparation for adult roles involving intense physical competition between males. The consistency of this sex differe... Read More about A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals.

Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds (2022)
Journal Article
Vanadzina, K., Street, S. E., Healy, S. D., Laland, K. N., & Sheard, C. (2023). Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13815

The size of a bird's nest can play a key role in ensuring reproductive success and is determined by a variety of factors. The primary function of the nest is to protect offspring from the environment and predators. Field studies in a number of passer... Read More about Global drivers of variation in cup nest size in passerine birds.

The evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration (2022)
Journal Article
Mearing, A. S., Burkart, J. M., Dunn, J., Street, S. E., & Koops, K. (2022). The evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 14119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18275-9

The drivers of divergent scleral morphologies in primates are currently unclear, though white sclerae are often assumed to underlie human hyper-cooperative behaviours. Humans are unusual in possessing depigmented sclerae whereas many other extant pri... Read More about The evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration.

The role of population size in folk tune complexity (2022)
Journal Article
Street, S., Eerola, T., & Kendal, J. (2022). The role of population size in folk tune complexity. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, Article 152. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01139-y

Demography, particularly population size, plays a key role in cultural complexity. However, the relationship between population size and complexity appears to vary across domains: while studies of technology typically find a positive correlation, the... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity.

The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint) (2021)
Journal Article
Street, S., Eerola, T., & Kendal, J. The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2he8k. Manuscript submitted for publication

A positive correlation between population size and cultural complexity is perhaps one of the most consistent findings in the field of cultural evolution. However, previous findings are largely based on studies of technology and are not necessarily ge... Read More about The role of population size in folk tune complexity (preprint).

Conformity to Bergmann's rule in birds depends on nest design and migration (2021)
Journal Article
Mainwaring, M. C., & Street, S. E. (2021). Conformity to Bergmann's rule in birds depends on nest design and migration. Ecology and Evolution, 11(19), 13118-13127. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8034

Ecogeographical rules attempt to explain large-scale spatial patterns in biological traits. One of the most enduring examples is Bergmann's rule, which states that species should be larger in colder climates due to the thermoregulatory advantages of... Read More about Conformity to Bergmann's rule in birds depends on nest design and migration.

Dental microstructure records life history events: A histological study of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon (2021)
Journal Article
Lemmers, S. A., Dirks, W., Street, S. E., Ngoubangoye, B., Herbert, A., & Setchell, J. M. (2021). Dental microstructure records life history events: A histological study of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon. Journal of Human Evolution, 158, Article 103046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103046

Accentuated lines in dental microstructure are hypothesized to correlate with potentially stressful life history events, but our understanding of when, how and why such accentuated lines form in relation to stressful events is limited. We examined ac... Read More about Dental microstructure records life history events: A histological study of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) from Gabon.

Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates (2021)
Journal Article
Kavanagh, E., Street, S. E., Angwela, F. O., Bergman, T. J., Blaszczyk, M. B., Bolt, L. M., Briseño-Jaramillo, M., Brown, M., Chen-Kraus, C., Clay, Z., Coye, C., Thompson, M. E., Estrada, A., Fichtel, C., Fruth, B., Gamba, M., Giacoma, C., Graham, K. E., Green, S., Grueter, C. C., …Slocombe, K. (2021). Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates. Royal Society Open Science, 8(7), Article 210873. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210873

Animal communication has long been thought to be subject to pressures and constraints associated with social relationships. However, our understanding of how the nature and quality of social relationships relates to the use and evolution of communica... Read More about Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates.

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)
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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)
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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)
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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.