ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
How disease constrains the evolution of social systems.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates.Annual review of anthropology · 2024Article
- The role of social attraction and social avoidance in shaping modular networks.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Virus Prevalence in Egg Samples Collected from Naturally Selected and Traditionally Managed Honey Bee Colonies across Europe.Viruses · 2022Article
- Social dilemmas of sociality due to beneficial and costly contagion.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Social information use shapes the coevolution of sociality and virulence.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Bidirectional interactions between host social behaviour and parasites arise through ecological and evolutionary processes.Parasitology · 2021Article
- How territoriality reduces disease transmission among social insect colonies.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Animal populations are occasionally shocked by epidemics of contagious diseases. The ability of social systems to withstand epidemic shocks and mitigate disruptions could shape the evolution of complex animal societies. We present a mathematical model to explore the potential impact of disease on the evolutionary fitness of different organizational strategies for populations of social species whose survival depends on collaborative efficiency. We show that infectious diseases select for a specific feature in the organization of collaborative roles-cohort stability-and that this feature is costly, and therefore unlikely to be maintained in environments where infection risks are absent. Our study provides evidence for an often-stated (but rarely supported) claim that pathogens have been the dominant force shaping the complexity of division of labour in eusocial societies of honeybees and termites and establishes a general theoretical approach for assessing evolutionary constraints on social organization from disease risk in other collaborative taxa.
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