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Tom Scott
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Evolutionary theory, cooperation, conflict. U. Oxford https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2YZbCPwAAAAJ&hl=en
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Tom Scott @tomwscott.bsky.social · Apr 11
New paper with @andygardner.bsky.social and @geoffwild.bsky.social in which we ask whether the ability to recognise relatives causes individuals to be more or less cooperative overall.

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Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping
Abstract. Kin selection theory predicts that individuals should evolve to help relatives, either by helping indiscriminately in a population where they do
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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Feb 17
New paper: "Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping"

with Tom Scott (@tomwscott.bsky.social) & Geoff Wild (@geoffwild.bsky.social) #OpenAccess

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Brian Lerch @lerchecoevo.bsky.social · Feb 25
I’m a bit late, but new paper out led by Thomas Aubier on the evolution of altruism by the greenbeard effect! (1/6) academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
The role of pleiotropy and population structure in the evolution of altruism through the greenbeard effect
Population genetic theory sheds light on the necessity of pleiotropy for altruism to be favored through the greenbeard effect and reveals that population s
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Amy Leedale @amyleedale.bsky.social · Jan 29
I'm excited to share our review on the #Evolution of kin discrimination, out now in @annualreviews.bsky.social! We aim to showcase the breadth of #KinRecognition mechanisms across diverse taxa, and explore life-history and ecological processes that promote #KinDiscrimination. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
The Evolution of Kin Discrimination Across the Tree of Life | Annual Reviews
Kin discrimination, the differential treatment of conspecifics based on kinship, occurs across the tree of life, from animals to plants to fungi to bacteria. When kin and nonkin interact, the ability ...
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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · Jan 23
Underground intelligence: Are plant-fungi networks about collaboration or competition? 🌳📢🍄📢🌳

A new study has investigated whether trees are altruistically warning their neighbours but its more likely a case of eavesdropping 👇

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Populus trees in Gobi Desert depend on mycorrhizal fungi. Credit - Tomas Munita
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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · Jan 22
Are plants more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapped into fungal networks?

Read our new theory paper out today in @pnas.org w/ @stuwest.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social

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Tom Scott @tomwscott.bsky.social · Jan 23
Write-up of our new paper on information transfer in plant-fungal networks: "Study shows plants are more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapping into underground networks".

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Study shows plants are more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than
A new study led by the University of Oxford has used a modelling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Jan 22
Evolutionary theory suggests that plants are unlikely to warn other plants about herbivore attack, via routes such as shared fungal networks (the 'wood wide web'). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The evolution of signaling and monitoring in plant–fungal networks | PNAS
Experiments have shown that when one plant is attacked by a pathogen or herbivore, this can lead to other plants connected to the same mycorrhizal ...
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Tom Scott @tomwscott.bsky.social · Jan 21
New paper with @tobykiers.bsky.social and @stuwest.bsky.social on whether plants send signals through fungal networks to warn other plants of impending attack – theory suggests unlikely.

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