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Follow (or don’t follow) the crowd: Young children’s conformity is influenced by norm domain and age (2017)
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This study investigated whether young children’s conformity to a consensus varies across the normative domain and age. A total of 168 3- and 5-year-olds participated. Each child was presented with a puzzle box that had two transparent compartments. I... Read More about Follow (or don’t follow) the crowd: Young children’s conformity is influenced by norm domain and age.

Intraseasonal temporal variation of reproductive effort for male grey seals (2017)
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Reproductive skew in polygynous mating systems leads to variation in mating strategies, or the tactics within strategies, adopted by individual males. For example, variation in the timing of reproductive effort might reflect trade-offs between maximi... Read More about Intraseasonal temporal variation of reproductive effort for male grey seals.

Frequency selection in palaeoclimate time series: a model-based approach incorporating possible time uncertainty (2018)
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A key aspect of paleoclimate time series analysis is the identification of frequency behavior. Commonly, this is achieved by calculating a power spectrum and comparing this spectrum with that of a simplified model. Traditional hypothesis testing meth... Read More about Frequency selection in palaeoclimate time series: a model-based approach incorporating possible time uncertainty.

Genomics of habitat choice and adaptive evolution in a deep-sea fish (2018)
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Intraspecific diversity promotes evolutionary change, and when partitioned among geographic regions or habitats can form the basis for speciation. Marine species live in an environment that can provide as much scope for diversification in the vertica... Read More about Genomics of habitat choice and adaptive evolution in a deep-sea fish.

Residual malaria transmission dynamics varies across The Gambia despite high coverage of control interventions (2017)
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Over the last decades, malaria has declined substantially in The Gambia but its transmission has not been interrupted. In order to better target control interventions, it is essential to understand the dynamics of residual transmission. This prospect... Read More about Residual malaria transmission dynamics varies across The Gambia despite high coverage of control interventions.

How house design affects malaria mosquito density, temperature, and relative humidity: an experimental study in rural Gambia (2018)
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Introduction: Unprecedented improvements in housing are occurring across much of rural sub-Saharan Africa, but the consequences of these changes on malaria transmission remain poorly explored. We examined how different typologies of rural housing aff... Read More about How house design affects malaria mosquito density, temperature, and relative humidity: an experimental study in rural Gambia.

Freezer on, lights off! Environmental effects on activity rhythms of fish in the Arctic (2017)
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Polar regions are characterized by acute seasonal changes in the environment, with organisms inhabiting these regions lacking diel photoperiodic information for parts of the year. We present, to our knowledge, the first high-resolution analysis of di... Read More about Freezer on, lights off! Environmental effects on activity rhythms of fish in the Arctic.

Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland (2018)
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This paper presents the results of a palaeoenvironmental investigation of riverine deposits containing charred heathland plant material, recovered during an archaeological survey of Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. This survey... Read More about Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland.

Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall (2018)
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Two potential forms of mutation in cultural evolution have been identified: ‘copying error’, where learners make random modifications to a behaviour and ‘guided variation’ where learners makes non-random modifications. While copying error is directly... Read More about Faking the News: Intentional Guided Variation Reflects Cognitive Biases in Transmission Chains Without Recall.

Histamine type 1-receptor activation by low dose of histamine undermines human glomerular slit diaphragm integrity (2016)
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Histamine has been reported to decrease the ultrafiltration coefficient, which inversely correlates with glomerular permselectivity, however the mechanism(s) underling this effect have never been investigated. This study aimed to assess whether hista... Read More about Histamine type 1-receptor activation by low dose of histamine undermines human glomerular slit diaphragm integrity.

The Selection of Potential Undergraduate Students who Lack Customary Academic Qualifications: is a toolkit possible? (2017)
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Widening participation in higher education is now seen as desirable in much of the West, if only for its economic benefits. It can, however, present problems for admissions tutors as applicants can vary widely in age and experience, and may lack conv... Read More about The Selection of Potential Undergraduate Students who Lack Customary Academic Qualifications: is a toolkit possible?.

Genetic diversity of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.) populations in the western North Pacific and the conservation implications (2017)
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The evolutionary processes that shape patterns of diversity in highly mobile marine species are poorly understood, but important towards transferable inference on their effective conservation. In this study, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) are stu... Read More about Genetic diversity of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops sp.) populations in the western North Pacific and the conservation implications.

Neglected issues in using weather and climate information in ecology and biogeography (2017)
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Assessing the utility and limitations of accelerometers and machine learning approaches in classifying behaviour during lactation in a phocid seal (2018)
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Background Classifying behaviour with animal-borne accelerometers is quickly becoming a popular tool for remotely observing behavioural states in a variety of species. Most accelerometry work in pinnipeds has focused on classifying behaviour at sea o... Read More about Assessing the utility and limitations of accelerometers and machine learning approaches in classifying behaviour during lactation in a phocid seal.

What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance (2018)
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Vigilance functions to detect threats. In primates, these threats emerge from both predators and conspecifics, but a host of other social, demographic, and ecological factors have been shown to influence primate vigilance patterns. The primate vigila... Read More about What have we been looking at? A call for consistency in studies of primate vigilance.

General intelligence does not help us understand cognitive evolution (2017)
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Burkart et al. conflate the domain-specificity of cognitive processes with the statistical pattern of variance in behavioural measures that partly reflect those processes. General intelligence is a statistical abstraction, not a cognitive trait, and... Read More about General intelligence does not help us understand cognitive evolution.

Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees (2017)
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Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human culture, and the question of whether animal cultures may be homologous or analogous to our own cul... Read More about Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees.

Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates (2017)
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Comparative studies have identified a wide range of behavioural and ecological correlates of relative brain size, with results differing between taxonomic groups, and even within them. In primates for example, recent studies contradict one another ov... Read More about Re-evaluating the link between brain size and behavioural ecology in primates.

Is current floodplain management a cause for concern for fish and bird conservation in Bangladesh’s largest wetland? (2018)
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Worldwide, water regulatory structures have impacts on aquatic ecological connectivity. This study determined the effects of current sluice management on the fish community in the Baral River, a major connection to the largest wetland (Chalan Beel) i... Read More about Is current floodplain management a cause for concern for fish and bird conservation in Bangladesh’s largest wetland?.

Energetically efficient behaviour may be common in biology, but it is not universal: a test of selective tidal stream transport in a poor swimmer (2017)
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Selective tidal stream transport (STST) is a common migration strategy for a wide range of aquatic animals, facilitating energetically efficient transport, especially of species considered poor swimmers. We tested whether this mechanism applies durin... Read More about Energetically efficient behaviour may be common in biology, but it is not universal: a test of selective tidal stream transport in a poor swimmer.