Papers on social evolution & cooperation. It’s much more than just a question of when to do something helpful to others!
| Aubier, T. & Kokko, H. 2022. Volatile social environments can favour investments in quality over quantity of social relationships. Proc. R. Soc. B 289: 20220281. | |
| Ridley, A.R., Nelson-Flower, M.J., Wiley, E.M., Humphries, D.J. & Kokko, H. 2022. Kidnapping intergroup young: an alternative strategy to maintain group size in the group-living pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 377: 20210153. | |
| Sapage, M., Varela, S.A.M. & Kokko, H. 2021. Social learning by mate-choice copying increases dispersal and reduces local adaptation. Functional Ecology 35: 705–716. | |
| Kokko, H. 2017. Give one species the task to come up with a theory that spans them all: what good can come out of that? Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20171652. | |
| Rodrigues, A.M.M. & Kokko, H. 2106. Models of social evolution: Can we do better to predict “who helps whom to achieve what”? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 371: 20150088. | |
| Henshaw, J.M., Kokko, H. & Jennions, M.D. 2015. Direct reciprocity stabilises simultaneous hermaphroditism at high mating rates: a model of sex allocation with egg trading. Evolution 69: 2129–2139. | |
| haiku pdf | Krams, I., Kokko, H., Abolins-Abols, M., Krama, T. & Rantala, M.J. 2013. The excuse principle can maintain cooperation through forgivable defection in the prisoner’s dilemma game. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280: 20131475. |
| haiku pdf | Lehtonen, J. & Kokko, H. 2012. Positive feedback and alternative stable states in inbreeding, cooperation, sex roles and other evolutionary processes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 367: 211-221. |
| haiku pdf | Fromhage, L. & Kokko, H. 2011. Monogamy and haplodiploidy act in synergy to promote the evolution of eusociality. Nature Communications 2: 397. |
| haiku pdf | Kokko, H. & Heubel, K.U. 2011. Prudent males, group adaptation, and the tragedy of the commons. Oikos 120: 641–656 (an invited Per Brinck Oikos Award article). |
| haiku | Jaatinen, K., Lehtonen, J. & Kokko, H. 2011. Strategy selection under conspecific brood parasitism: an integrative modelling approach. Behavioral Ecology 22: 144-155. |
| Abbot et al. 2011. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471: E1–E4. | |
| López-Sepulcre, A., Norris, K. & Kokko, H. 2009. Reproductive conflict delays the recovery of an endangered social species. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 219-225. | |
| Knopp, T., Heimovirta, M., Kokko, H. & Merilä, J. 2008. Do male moor frogs (Rana arvalis) lek with kin? Molecular Ecology 17: 2522-2530. | |
| Rankin, D.J., Bargum, K. & Kokko, H. 2007. The tragedy of the commons in evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22: 643-651. | |
| Kokko, H. 2007. Cooperative behaviour and cooperative breeding: what constitutes an explanation? Behavioural Processes 76: 81-85. | |
| Rankin, D.J., López-Sepulcre, A., Foster, K.R. & Kokko, H. 2007. Species-level selection reduces selfishness through competitive exclusion. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1459-1468. | |
| Sarhan, A. & Kokko, H. 2007. Multiple mating in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: a case of within-generation bet-hedging? Evolution 61: 606-616. | |
| Foster, K.R. & Kokko, H. 2006. Cheating can stabilise cooperation in mutualisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 2233-2239. | |
| Kokko, H. 2003. Are reproductive skew models evolutionarily stable? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270: 265-270. | |
| Härdling, R. & Kokko, H. 2003. Life history traits as causes or consequences of social behaviour: why do cooperative breeders lay small clutches? Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 691-700. | |
| Härdling, R., Kokko, H. & Arnold, K.E. 2003. Dynamics of the caring family. American Naturalist 161: 395-412. | |
| Kokko, H. & Ekman, J. 2002. Delayed dispersal as a route to breeding: Territorial inheritance, ‘safe havens’ and ecological constraints. American Naturalist 160: 468-484. | |
| Kokko, H., Johnstone, R. A. & Wright, J. 2002. The evolution of parental and alloparental care in cooperatively breeding groups: when should helpers pay to stay? Behavioral Ecology 13: 291-300. | |
| López-Sepulcre, A. & Kokko, H. 2002. The role of kin recognition in the evolution of conspecific brood parasitism. Animal Behaviour 64: 215-222. | |
| Kokko, H., Johnstone, R.A. & Clutton-Brock, T.H. 2001. The evolution of cooperative breeding through group augmentation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 187-196. | |
| Kokko, H. & Lundberg, P. 2001. Dispersal, migration, and offspring retention in saturated habitats. American Naturalist 157: 188-202. | |
| Kokko, H. & Johnstone, R. A. 1999. Social queuing in animal societies: a dynamic model of reproductive skew. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265: 571-578. | |
| Kokko, H. & Lindström, J. 1996. Kin selection and the evolution of leks: whose success do young males maximize? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263: 919-923. |