The Centre for Biological Diversity addresses the consequences of biodiversity at the interface between ecology and evolution. The ecological consequences of biodiversity are considered in terms of processes such as pollination biology, niche construction, and invasion biology.
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Prof. Kevin Laland
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10 (of 279 /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/status/published available) for knl1 (source: University of St Andrews PURE)Please click title of any item for full details
Attentional coordination in demonstrator-observer dyads facilitates learning and predicts performance in a novel manual task Kevin Neville Laland, Moreno I. Coco
Cognition 2020 vol. 201
Cognition 2020 vol. 201
Flexible learning, rather than inveterate innovation or copying, drives cumulative knowledge gain Ned Gulley, Kevin Neville Laland, Luke Edward Rendell
Science Advances 2020 vol. 6
Science Advances 2020 vol. 6
Niche construction affects the variability and strength of natural selection Andrew D. Clark, Dominik Deffner, Kevin Neville Laland, John Odling-Smee, John Endler
American Naturalist 2020 vol. 195 pp. 16-30
American Naturalist 2020 vol. 195 pp. 16-30
No evidence for individual recognition in threespine or ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus or Pungitius pungitius) Michael Munro Webster, Kevin Neville Laland
Royal Society Open Science 2020 vol. 7
Royal Society Open Science 2020 vol. 7
Young birds switch but old birds lead Thomas Oudman, Kevin Neville Laland, Graeme Douglas Ruxton, Ingunn Tombre, Paul Shimmings, Jouke Prop
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2020 vol. 7
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2020 vol. 7
A four-questions perspective on public information use in sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae) Michael Munro Webster, Gabor Herczeg, Jun Kitano, Riva Jyoti Riley, Sean Rogers, Michael D. Shapiro, Takahito Shikano, Kevin Neville Laland
Royal Society Open Science 2019 vol. 6
Royal Society Open Science 2019 vol. 6
Correction for “Coevolution of cultural intelligence, extended life history, sociality, and brain size in primates,” by Sally E. Street, Ana F. Navarrete, Simon M. Reader, and Kevin N. Laland, which was first published July 25, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1620734114 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114:7908–7914) Ana Navarrete, Simon M. Reader, Kevin Neville Laland
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019 vol. 116 pp. 3929-3932
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019 vol. 116 pp. 3929-3932
Social learning strategies regulate the wisdom and madness of interactive crowds Wataru Toyokawa, Kevin Neville Laland
Nature Human Behaviour 2019 vol. 3 pp. 183-193
Nature Human Behaviour 2019 vol. 3 pp. 183-193
Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’ Joe Stubbersfield, Lewis Dean, Sana Sheikh, Kevin Neville Laland, Catharine Penelope Cross
Palgrave Communications 2019 vol. 5
Palgrave Communications 2019 vol. 5