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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Multilevel selection on individual and group social behaviour in the wild.

Conner S Philson, Julien G A Martin, Daniel T Blumstein

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Conner S PhilsonDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5974-347X
Julien G A MartinDepartment of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 9A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7726-6809
Daniel T BlumsteinDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5793-9244

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How phenotypes are shaped by multilevel selection-the theoretical framework proposing natural selection occurs at more than one level of biological organization-is a classic debate in biology. Though social behaviours are a common theoretical example for multilevel selection, it is unknown if and how multilevel selection acts on sociality in the wild. We studied the relative strength of multilevel selection on both individual behaviour and group social structure, quantified with social networks and 19 years of data from a wild, free-living mammal, the yellow-bellied marmot (

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MarmotaSelection, GeneticSocial BehaviorAnimalsBehavior, AnimalBiological EvolutionFemaleMalePhenotypegroup social structureindividual social positionmultilevel selectionsocial behavioursocial networks

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PMID40101765
PMCPMC11919500

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