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Literature Club

The Literature Club is organized along two lines. General sessions take place once every two weeks on Mondays after the coffee break at 11.00 in room B.019. These sessions are intended for the entire group; papers are picked by the person in charge for that week without any restriction on topics. To structure the discussion a bit the person in charge will first give a short PowerPoint presentation on the paper they've chosen, outlining the key features of the article and perhaps raising particular points for discussion. The weeks in between the general sessions are meant for more specialised literature clubs for those who are interested. These topical sessions are organized on a sign-up basis, and can have different formats than the general sessions. Previously discussed papers may be collected by topic from the archives.

General sessions

Organizer : Ido Pen (i.r.pen AT: rug.nl)
Date Chair Paper
22.03.2010 Ido Pen J.D. Hadfield et al. (2010): The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution. Am. Nat. 175: 116-125. (PDF [PDF], supplement [PDF])
22.02.2010 Leif Engqvist S.H. Alonzo & T. Pizzari (2010): Male fecundity stimulation: conflict and cooperation between the sexes: model analyses and coevolutionary dynamics. Am. Nat. 175: 174-185. (PDF [PDF], appendix [PDF])
15.02.2010 Ivan Puga S. Mitri et al. (2009): The evolution of information suppression in communicating robots with conflicting interests. PNAS 106: 15786-15790 (PDF [PDF])
11.12.2009 Tomás Revilla B. McGill (2005): A mechanistic model of a mutualism and its ecological and evolutionary dynamics. Ecological Modelling 187: 413-425 (PDF [PDF])
07.12.2009 Aniek Ivens D.K. Aanen et al. (2009): High symbiont relatedness stabilizes mutuaistic cooperation in fungus-growing termites. Science 326: 1103-1106 (PDF [PDF])
23.11.2009 Johanneke Oosten
09.11.2009 Ruth Castillo Cajas M.A.M. de Aguiar et al. (2009): Global patterns of speciation and diversity. Nature 460: 384-388 (PDF [PDF])
26.10.2009 Cancelled due to Workshop Social Cognition in Animals
12.10.2009 Cancelled
28.09.2009 Cancelled
15.09.2009 Cancelled
01.09.2009 Bram Kuijper A.G. Jones (2009): On the opportunity for sexual selection, the Bateman gradient and the maximum intensity of sexual selection. Evolution 63: 1673-1684.
Summer break
30.06.2009 Vera Sarkol B. Tomlinson (2009): A proximate mechanism for communities of agents to commemorate long dead ancestors. J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul. 12: 27.
16.06.2009 Erwin Scholtens S.K.A. Robson & J.F.A. Traniello (2002): Transient division of labor and behavioral specialization in the ant Formica schaufussi. Naturwissenschaften 89: 128-131.
02.06.2009 Piet van den Berg J. Gore, H. Youk & A. van Oudenaarden (2009): Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast. Nature 459: 253-256.
19.05.2009 Jeroen Kuijpers N.K. Newlands & T.A. Porcelli (2008): Measurement of the size, shape and structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna schools in the open ocean. Fish. Res. 91: 42-55.
28.04.2009 Leif Engqvist L. Fromhage, H. Kokko & J.M. Reid (2009): Evolution of mate choice for genome-wide heterozygosity. Evolution 63: 684-694.
14.04.2009 Thijs Janzen T.H. Oliver, S.R. Leather & J.M. Cook (2009): Tolerance traits and the stability of mutualism. Oikos 118: 346-352.
31.03.2009 Tomás Revilla B.A. Melbourne & A. Hastings (2008): Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity Nature 454: 100-103.
17.03.2009 Elske van der Vaart D.R. Lyon, G. Gunzelmann & K.A. Gluck (2008): A computational model of spatial visualization capacity Cog. Psy. 57: 122-152.
24.02.2009 Daan Reid J.C. Liao (2007): A review of fish swimming mechanics and behaviour in altered flows Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 362: 1973–1993.
10.02.2009 Michael Briga D. Lukas, V. Reynolds, C. Boesch & L . Vigilant (2005): To what extent does living in a group mean living with kin? Mol. Ecol. 14: 2181–2196.
27.01.2009 Tim Fawcett D. Nettle & T.V. Pollet (2008): Natural selection on male wealth in humans Am. Nat. 172: 658-666.
13.01.2009 Ivan Puga B. Thierry, F. Aureli, C.L. Nunn, O. Petit, C. Abegg & F.B.M. De Waal (2008): A comparative study of conflict resolution in macaques: Insights into the nature of trait covariation Anim. Behav. 75: 847-860.

Classical papers in ecology and evolution

Organizer : Max Wolf (m.wolf AT: rug.nl)
Date Chair Paper
26.05.2008 Tim Fawcett S.J. Gould & R.C. Lewontin (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205: 581-598. Background info: D.C. Queller (1995). The spaniels of St. Marx and the Panglossian paradox: a critique of a rhetorical programme Quart. Rev. Biol. 70: 485-489.
21.04.2008 Bram Kuijper R. Lande (1981). Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 78: 3721-3725.
07.04.2008 Martin Hinsch P. J. Den Boer (1968). Spreading of risk and stabilization of animal numbers. Acta Biotheoretica 18: 165-194.
10.03.2008 Harold Perez de Vladar S.A. Frank & M. Slatkin (1992). Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection. TREE 7: 92-95.
26.02.2008 Max Wolf & Harold Perez de Vladar The second chapter of Fisher's "Genetical Theory of Natural Selection" ; background reading: A.W.F Edwards (1994). The fundamental theorem of natural selection. Biol. Rev. 69: 443-474.
12.02.2008 Max Wolf N. Tinbergen (1963, reprint 2005). On aims and methods of ethology. Anim. Biol. 55: 297-321.

Self-organisation in social systems

Organizer : Daan Reid (d.a.p.reid AT: rug.nl)
Date Chair Paper
21.04.2009 Johanneke Oosten Del Rosal et al. (2006): Simulation of habituation to simple and multiple stimuli Behav. Processes 73: 272-277 (PDF [PDF])
17.03.2009 Elske van der Vaart D.R. Lyon, G. Gunzelmann & K.A. Gluck (2008): A computational model of spatial visualization capacity Cog. Psy. 57: 122-152.
22.01.2008 Daan Reid J.D. van der Laan & P. Hogeweg (1995). Predator-prey coevolution: interactions across different timescales Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 259: 35-42.
10.03.2009 Daan Reid J.C. Liao (2007): A review of fish swimming mechanics and behaviour in altered flows Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 362: 1973–1993.
10.02.2009 Elske van der Vaart S. Roberts & H. Pashler (2000). How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing. Psych. Rev. 107: 358-367.
24.02.2009 Jeroen Kuijpers E.J. Denton & J. Gray (1983). Mechanical factors in the excitation of clupeid lateral lines. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 218: 1-26.
02.12.2008 Daan Reid K.M. Schultz, K.M. Passino & T.D. Seeley (2008). The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees? J. Exp. Biol. 211: 3287-3295.
25.11.2008 Johanneke Oosten R. Thenius, T. Schmickl & K. Crailsheim (2008). Optimisation of a honeybee-colony’s energetics via social learning based on queuing delays Connection Science 20: 193–210.
11.11.2008 Ivan Puga S.P. Henzi, L. Barrett, D. Gaynor, J. Greeff, T. Weingrill & R.A. Hill (2003). Effect of resource competition on the long-term allocation of grooming by female baboons: evaluating Seyfarth’s model Anim. Behav. 66: 931-938.
04.11.2008 Ivan Puga J.-K. Choi & S. Bowles (2007). The coevolution of parochial altruism and war Science 318: 636-640.
05.02.2008 Johanneke Oosten P. Hogeweg & B. Hesper (1983). The ontogeny of the interaction structure in bumble bee colonies: a MIRROR model Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 12: 271-283.

Social evolution

Organizers : Bram Kuijper (a.l.w.kuijper AT: rug.nl) & Lucas Molleman (l.s.molleman AT: rug.nl)
Date Chair Paper
19.02.2010 Lucas Molleman McElreath and Boyd (2007). Mathematical Models of Social Evolution : Chapter 1.
02.10.2008 Bram Kuijper D. Queller (1992). Quantitative genetics, inclusive fitness and group selection Am. Nat. 139: 540-558.

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