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List of works by Michael A Cant

A high-quality pedigree and genetic markers both reveal inbreeding depression for quality but not survival in a cooperative mammal

scientific article published on 29 April 2018

A model for the evolution of reproductive skew without reproductive suppression ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

A new perspective on size hierarchies in nature: patterns, causes, and consequences

scientific article published on 23 June 2006

Adaptation to public goods cheats in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

scientific article published in July 2017

Adjustment of costly extra-group paternity according to inbreeding risk in a cooperative mammal

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Banded mongooses avoid inbreeding when mating with members of the same natal group

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Biased escorts: offspring sex, not relatedness explains alloparental care patterns in a cooperative breeder.

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Data collection and storage in long-term ecological and evolutionary studies: The Mongoose 2000 system.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Direct fitness, reciprocity and helping: a perspective from primitively eusocial wasps

scientific article published on 23 August 2007

Dynamic conflict among heterogeneous groups: a comment on Christensen and Radford

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

Ecological knowledge, leadership, and the evolution of menopause in killer whales.

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Elevated aggression is associated with uncertainty in a network of dog dominance interactions

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Elevated glucocorticoid concentrations during gestation predict reduced reproductive success in subordinate female banded mongooses

scientific article

Endogenous timing in competitive interactions among relatives

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Escalated conflict in a social hierarchy

scientific article published in December 2006

Evidence for frequent incest in a cooperatively breeding mammal.

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Explaining negative kin discrimination in a cooperative mammal society

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Exploitative leaders incite intergroup warfare in a social mammal

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Female control of the distribution of paternity in cooperative breeders

scientific article published in November 2002

Female reproductive competition explains variation in prenatal investment in wild banded mongooses

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Fine-scale spatiotemporal patterns of genetic variation reflect budding dispersal coupled with strong natal philopatry in a cooperatively breeding mammal

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

Group size and visitor numbers predict faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in zoo meerkats

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Helping effort and future fitness in cooperation animal societies

scientific article published in September 2001

How threats influence the evolutionary resolution of within-group conflict

scientific article published in June 2009

Imitation and traditions in wild banded mongooses

scientific article published on 3 June 2010

Inbreeding depresses altruism in a cooperative society

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Individual variation in social aggression and the probability of inheritance: theory and a field test

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Insurance-based advantages for subordinate co-foundresses in a temperate paper wasp.

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Intragroup competition predicts individual foraging specialisation in a group-living mammal.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Kin discrimination via odour in the cooperatively breeding banded mongoose.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Lack of aggression and apparent altruism towards intruders in a primitive termite

scientific article

Lifetime fitness consequences of early-life ecological hardship in a wild mammal population.

scientific article published on 12 February 2017

Live long and prosper: durable benefits of early-life care in banded mongooses

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Longevity suppresses conflict in animal societies

scientific article published on 02 October 2013

Mortality risk and social network position in resident killer whales: sex differences and the importance of resource abundance

scientific article published in October 2017

Network‐level consequences of outgroup threats in banded mongooses: Grooming and aggression between the sexes

scientific article published in 2020

Oxidative shielding and the cost of reproduction.

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Patterns and consequences of age-linked change in local relatedness in animal societies

scientific article published in 2022

Policing of reproduction by hidden threats in a cooperative mammal

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Postreproductive lifespans are rare in mammals.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Power Struggles, Dominance Testing, and Reproductive Skew

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Pregnancy is detected via odour in a wild cooperative breeder.

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Reproductive Conflict and the Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales

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Reproductive Skew in Multimember Groups.

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Reproductive competition and the evolution of extreme birth synchrony in a cooperative mammal

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Reproductive competition triggers mass eviction in cooperative banded mongooses

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2016)

Reproductive conflict and the separation of reproductive generations in humans

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Reproductive control via eviction (but not the threat of eviction) in banded mongooses

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Reproductive skew and indiscriminate infanticide

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Reproductive skew and the threat of eviction: a new perspective.

scientific article published in February 1999

Resolving social conflict among females without overt aggression

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Segmental concatenation of individual signatures and context cues in banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) close calls

scientific article

Self-serving punishment and the evolution of cooperation

scientific article published in September 2006

Sex differences in dispersal and the evolution of helping and harming

scientific article published in September 2008

Sex-biased dispersal, haplodiploidy and the evolution of helping in social insects

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Smelling fit: scent marking exposes parasitic infection status in the banded mongoose.

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Social control of reproduction in banded mongooses

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Social stability and helping in small animal societies

scientific article

Spontaneous abortion as a response to reproductive conflict in the banded mongoose

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Suppressing subordinate reproduction provides benefits to dominants in cooperative societies of meerkats

scientific article

Suppression of Social Conflict and Evolutionary Transitions to Cooperation ⬇️

scientific article published on December 20, 2011

Telomere dynamics in wild banded mongooses: Evaluating longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal markers of senescence

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The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses

scientific article published on 13 July 2011

The evolution of menopause in cetaceans and humans: the role of demography

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2010)

The evolution of prolonged life after reproduction.

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The role of threats in animal cooperation

scientific article published on 26 August 2010

Using social parasitism to test reproductive skew models in a primitively eusocial wasp

scientific article published in August 2014

Variable ecological conditions promote male helping by changing banded mongoose group composition

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

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