Pete Buston Published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Faculty member and BUMP Director Pete Buston published a review of the evidence for strategic growth in social vertebrates, in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
The review highlights phenotypic plasticity. the ability of a genotype to express different phenotypes in response to variation in environmental conditions. The authors review examples of strategic growth in social vertebrates while circumstantial evidence suggests that strategic modifications of growth and size may be taxonomically widespread, occurring in many other social vertebrates, including humans, as well as social invertebrates and social plants, enabling individuals to resolve social conflicts and confront social challenges.