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Nikos Smit

@nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy

at utu; social behaviour/ life history; some bg in discr. maths ∧ theor. comp. science 🌉 bridged from ecoevo.social/@nikos on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Why did menopause evolve? @PNASNews www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26254…

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

In spotted hyenas, "social inheritance of privilege is a powerful driver of reproductive inequality" paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.… press release […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A figure from the scientific paper showing that the more offspring individual hyenas have, the more grand-offspring they have. This correlation though is a lot steeper in females than in males, meaning that over generations successful female lineages spread much faster than successful male lineages.

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution Website […]

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/article/f…

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Female mountain gorillas stop reproducing long before the end of their lives

Females live long past the birth of their last offspring

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Siato is today 50 years old, doing fine, and her last baby was born 15 years ago...

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Wild female gorillas live long after their last baby is born. Do they go through menopause? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25109…

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

MSc thesis! How does distance to kin influences adult survival?

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

"Sexual selection and parental care shape lifespan differences" across mammals and birds www.mpg.de/25470066/0926-evan-why-w…

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Why women live longer than men

Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple theconversation.com/whos-got-the-po…

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Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple

Most primate societies do not have clear-cut sex-biases when it comes to power.

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

The majority of animals do show various forms of hierarchy - but is the concept of ‚alpha‘ relevant or even real? www.livescience.com/animals/are-alp…

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Are alpha males real?

The term "alpha male" was coined in 1970 to describe wolves. But what does science think about the term now?

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

A dispatch for our article on gorilla intersexual power: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It's not all about size. New research on female #gorillas challenges the male power narrative. Study by @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy & Martha Robbins now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social. #primates @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @utu.fi More: tinyurl.com/y778faw2 & www.cell.com/current-biol...

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It's not all about size

Female gorillas challenge the male power narrative

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Female mountain gorillas can outrank males twice their size... ...and exhibit priority of access to resources over these males Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic… Press release: www.mpg.de/25119311/0730-evan-it-s-…

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Nikos Smit @nikos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

@DieterLukas According to the definition we used in this comparative study, mountain gorillas are not strictly male-dominant (but it depends on group composition..): www.cell.com/current-biology/fullte…

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25004… press release www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyon…

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