publications

2024

1. article

   The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition

   John M. McNamara, Sasha R. X. Dall, Alasdair I. Houston, and Olof Leimar

   Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2024

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   @article{McNamara_etal2024,
     author = {McNamara, John M. and Dall, Sasha R. X. and Houston, Alasdair I. and Leimar, Olof},
     title = {The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition},
     journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
     volume = {291},
     number = {2028},
     pages = {20241141},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1141},
   }

2. article

   Social bond dynamics and the evolution of helping

   Olof Leimar, and Redouan Bshary

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024

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   @article{LeimarBshary2024,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and Bshary, Redouan},
     title = {Social bond dynamics and the evolution of helping},
     volume = {121},
     number = {11},
     journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
     pages = {e2317736121},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1073/pnas.2317736121},
   }

3. article

   Flexible learning in complex worlds

   Olof Leimar, Andrés E. Quiñones, and Redouan Bshary

   Behavioral Ecology, 2024

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   @article{Leimar_etal2024,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and Quiñones, Andrés E. and Bshary, Redouan},
     title = {Flexible learning in complex worlds},
     journal = {Behavioral Ecology},
     volume = {35},
     number = {1},
     pages = {arad109},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1093/beheco/arad109},
   }

2023

1. review

   Game theory in biology: 50 years and onwards

   Olof Leimar, and John M. McNamara

   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023

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   @article{LeimarMcNamara2023,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and McNamara, John M.},
     title = {Game theory in biology: 50 years and onwards},
     journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
     volume = {378},
     number = {1876},
     pages = {20210509},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1098/rstb.2021.0509},
   }

2022

1. article

   Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour

   Olof Leimar, and Redouan Bshary

   Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022

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   @article{LeimarBshary2022b,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and Bshary, Redouan},
     title = {Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour},
     journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
     volume = {289},
     number = {1987},
     pages = {20222081},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1098/rspb.2022.2081},
   }

2. article

   Behavioural specialization and learning in social networks

   Olof Leimar, Sasha R. X. Dall, Alasdair I. Houston, and John M. McNamara

   Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022

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   @article{Leimar_etal2022,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and Dall, Sasha R. X. and Houston, Alasdair I. and McNamara, John M.},
     title = {Behavioural specialization and learning in social networks},
     journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
     volume = {289},
     number = {1980},
     pages = {20220954},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1098/rspb.2022.0954},
   }

3. article

   An evolutionary perspective on stress responses, damage and repair

   Barbara Taborsky, Bram Kuijper, Tim W. Fawcett, Sinead English, Olof Leimar, John M. McNamara, and Suvi Ruuskanen

   Hormones and Behavior, 2022

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   @article{Taborsky_etal2022,
     author = {Taborsky, Barbara and Kuijper, Bram and Fawcett, Tim W. and English, Sinead and Leimar, Olof and McNamara, John M. and Ruuskanen, Suvi},
     title = {{An evolutionary perspective on stress responses, damage and repair}},
     journal = {Hormones and Behavior},
     volume = {142},
     number = {},
     pages = {105180},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105180},
   }

4. article

   Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution

   Olof Leimar, and Redouan Bshary

   Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022

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   @article{LeimarBshary2022a,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and Bshary, Redouan},
     title = {{Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner–loser effects in social dominance evolution}},
     journal = {Journal of Animal Ecology},
     volume = {91},
     number = {5},
     pages = {1036-1046},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1111/1365-2656.13691},
   }

2021

1. letter

   Cooperation, with friends or with relatives?

   Olof Leimar, and Peter Hammerstein

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021

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   @article{LeimarHammerstein2021,
     author = {Leimar, Olof and Hammerstein, Peter},
     title = {Cooperation, with friends or with relatives?},
     journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
     volume = {118},
     number = {35},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1073/pnas.2107652118},
   }

2. article

   The evolution of social learning as phenotypic cue integration

   Bram Kuijper, Olof Leimar, Peter Hammerstein, John M. McNamara, and Sasha R. X. Dall

   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021

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   @article{Kuijper_etal2021,
     author = {Kuijper, Bram and Leimar, Olof and Hammerstein, Peter and McNamara, John M. and Dall, Sasha R. X.},
     title = {The evolution of social learning as phenotypic cue integration},
     journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences},
     volume = {376},
     number = {1828},
     pages = {20200048},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1098/rstb.2020.0048},
   }

3. article

   The evolution of social dominance through reinforcement learning

   Olof Leimar

   The American Naturalist, 2021

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   @article{Leimar2021,
     author = {Leimar, Olof},
     title = {The evolution of social dominance through reinforcement learning},
     journal = {The American Naturalist},
     volume = {197},
     number = {5},
     pages = {560--575},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1086/713758},
   }

4. article

   Learning, exploitation and bias in games

   John M. McNamara, Alasdair I. Houston, and Olof Leimar

   PLOS ONE, 2021

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   @article{McNamara_etal2021,
     author = {McNamara, John M. and Houston, Alasdair I. and Leimar, Olof},
     title = {Learning, exploitation and bias in games},
     journal = {PLOS ONE},
     volume = {16},
     number = {2},
     pages = {e0246588},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0246588},
   }

5. article

   Effects of social experience, aggressiveness and comb size on contest success in male domestic fowl

   Anna Favati, Hanne Løvlie, and Olof Leimar

   Royal Society Open Science, 2021

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   @article{Favati_etal2021,
     author = {Favati, Anna and Løvlie, Hanne and Leimar, Olof},
     title = {Effects of social experience, aggressiveness and comb size on contest success in male domestic fowl},
     journal = {Royal Society Open Science},
     volume = {8},
     number = {2},
     pages = {201213},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1098/rsos.201213},
   }

6. opinion

   Towards an evolutionary theory of stress responses

   Barbara Taborsky, Sinead English, Tim W. Fawcett, Bram Kuijper, Olof Leimar, John M. McNamara, Suvi Ruuskanen, and Carmen Sandi

   Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021

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   @article{Taborsky_etal2021,
     author = {Taborsky, Barbara and English, Sinead and Fawcett, Tim W. and Kuijper, Bram and Leimar, Olof and McNamara, John M. and Ruuskanen, Suvi and Sandi, Carmen},
     title = {Towards an evolutionary theory of stress responses},
     journal = {Trends in Ecology \& Evolution},
     volume = {36},
     number = {1},
     pages = {39--48},
     year = {2021},
     doi = {10.1016/j.tree.2020.09.003},
   }

2020

1. book

   

   Game theory in biology: Concepts and frontiers

   John M. McNamara, and Olof Leimar

   2020

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   @book{McNamaraLeimar2020,
     author = {McNamara, John M. and Leimar, Olof},
     title = {Game theory in biology: {Concepts} and frontiers},
     edition = {First Edition},
     address = {Oxford},
     publisher = {Oxford University Press},
     year = {2020},
     isbn = {978-0-19-881578-5},
   }

2. article

   Reinforcement learning theory reveals the cognitive requirements for solving the cleaner fish market task

   Andrés E. Quiñones, Olof Leimar, Arnon Lotem, and Redouan Bshary

   The American Naturalist, 2020

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   @article{Quinones_etal2020,
     author = {Quiñones, Andrés E. and Leimar, Olof and Lotem, Arnon and Bshary, Redouan},
     title = {Reinforcement learning theory reveals the cognitive requirements for solving the cleaner fish market task},
     journal = {The American Naturalist},
     volume = {195},
     number = {4},
     pages = {664--677},
     year = {2020},
     doi = {10.1086/707519},
   }