ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2013
Female competition and aggression: interdisciplinary perspectives.
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
54 citing papers in PubMed.
- Social Physiology: Human homeostasis is more efficient in social proximity.Science advances · 2026Article
- From female to female: Communication via chemosignals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Men's impulsivity underpins gender differences in aggressive behaviour.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social experience shapes fighting strategies ineLife · 2025Article
- Article
- Sex-specific performance, trade-offs and trait repeatability across the lifetime of the world's largest semelparous mammal (Dasyurus hallucatus).The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Is variation in female aggressiveness acrossProceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- When Rivals Are Absent: Male Aggression Towards Females in Bluefin Killifish.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Non-random mating behaviour between diverging littoral and pelagic three-spined sticklebacks in an invasive population from Upper Lake Constance.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- The sexy and formidable male body: men's height and weight are conditfion-dependent, sexually selected traits.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Female Phalangium opilio use fellatio to compensate sexual avoidance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sexually dimorphic oxytocin circuits drive intragroup social conflict and aggression in wild house mice.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Untangling behaviours: independent expressions of female-female aggression and snake-like hissing in the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sex-dependent control of pheromones on social organization within groups of wild house mice.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Infidelity in the Adolescence Stage: The Roles of Negative Affect, Hostility, and Psychological Well-Being.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Females Are More Aggressive Than Males towards Same- and Opposite-Sex Intruders in the Blue Tit (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Mycophagous beetle females do not behave competitively during intrasexual interactions in presence of a fungal resource.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Competitiveness among Nandi female husbands.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Fevers and the social costs of acute infection in wild vervet monkeys.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- 'Hangry'Animal behaviour · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This paper introduces a Theme Issue combining interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of female competition and aggression. Despite a history of being largely overlooked, evidence is now accumulating for the widespread evolutionary significance of female competition. Here, we provide a synthesis of contributions to this Theme Issue on humans and other vertebrates, and highlight directions for future research. Females compete for resources needed to survive and reproduce, and for preferred mates. Although female aggression takes diverse forms, under most circumstances relatively low-risk competitive strategies are favoured, most probably due to constraints of offspring production and care. In social species, dominance relationships and threats of punishment can resolve social conflict without resort to direct aggression, and coalitions or alliances may reduce risk of retaliation. Consistent with these trends, indirect aggression is a low cost but effective form of competition among young women. Costs are also minimized by flexibility in expression of competitive traits, with aggressive behaviour and competitive signalling tailored to social and ecological conditions. Future research on female competition and the proximate mediators of female aggression will be greatly enhanced by opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange, as evidenced by contributions to this Theme Issue.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.