Dieter Lukas
Research staff
Abteilung für Verhalten, Ökologie und Kultur des Menschen
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 316
E-Mail:
dieter_lukas@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
I am an evolutionary biologist focused on social systems of past and present populations from a comparative perspective. My key research achievements highlight the role of kinship in structuring social behaviour, resolve long standing questions about the evolution of animal societies, and advance novel approaches to provide insights into the evolution of social systems. My recent work unravels the fundamental assumptions underlying the field of human behavioural ecology, showing that behavioural variation in humans appears to be constrained by many of the same factors that shape behaviour in other mammals and birds. I am now revealing how the factors shaping social interactions lead to inequality in resource access and power imbalances within societies.
Publications
In Vorbereitung
Folsom, M. A., MacPherson, M., Lukas, D., McCune, K. B., Bergeron, L., Bond, A., Blackwell, A., Rowney, C., & Logan, C. J. (in preparation). Repeated parental care by adult male great-tailed grackles and its association with hormones, fitness, specific populations, and mating strategies. |
Open AccessIm Druck
Logan, C. J., Lukas, D., Bergeron, L., Folsom, M., & McCune, K. (in press). Is behavioral flexibility related to foraging and social behavior in a rapidly expanding species? (In principle acceptance by PCI Ecology of the version on 6 Aug 2019). Peer Community in Ecology, 100026. |
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Logan, C. J., McCune, K. B., Chen, N., & Lukas, D. (in press). Implementing a rapid geographic range expansion - the role of behavior and habitat changes (In principle acceptance by PCI Ecology of the version on 06 Oct 2020). Peer Community in Ecology, 100062. |
2024
Dalzero, A., Beheim, B. A., Kaplan, H., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P. L., Ross, C. T., Gurven, M., & Lukas, D. (2024). Cross-cousin marriage among Tsimane forager–horticulturalists during demographic transition and market integration. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6: e18. |
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Dezeure, J., Dagorrette, J., Burtschell, L., Chowdhury, S., Lukas, D., Swedell, L., & Huchard, E. (2024). Flexible reproductive seasonality in Africa-dwelling papionins is associated with low environmental productivity and high climatic unpredictability. Peer Community Journal, 4: e87. |
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Lukas, D., McCune, K., Blaisdell, A., Johnson-Ulrich, Z., MacPherson, M., Seitz, B., Sevchik, A., & Logan, C. J. (2024). Bayesian reinforcement learning models reveal how great-tailed grackles improve their behavioral flexibility in serial reversal learning experiments. Peer Community Journal, 4: e88. |
2023
Lee, K. G., Mennerat, A., Lukas, D., Dugdale, H. L., & Culina, A. (2023). The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia. eLife, 12: e85427. |
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McCune, K., Blaisdell, A., Johnson-Ulrich, Z., Sevchik, A., Lukas, D., MacPherson, M., Seitz, B., & Logan, C. J. (2023). Using repeatability of performance within and across contexts to validate measures of behavioral flexibility. PeerJ, 11: e15773. |
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Summers, J., Lukas, D., Logan, C. J., & Chen, N. (2023). The role of climate change and niche shifts in divergent range dynamics of a sister-species pair. EcoEvoRxiv. |
2022
Dalzero, A., Ross, C., & Lukas, D. (2022). Fitness consequences of cousin marriage: A life-history assessment in two populations. Evolutionary Human Sciences. |
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Davidian, E., Surbeck, M., Lukas, D., Kappeler, P. M., & Huchard, E. (2022). The eco-evolutionary landscape of power relationships between males and females. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 37, 706-718. |
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Sevchik, A., Logan, C. J., Bergeron, L., Blackwell, A., Rowney, C., & Lukas, D. (2022). Investigating sex differences in genetic relatedness in great-tailed grackles in Tempe, Arizona to infer potential sex biases in dispersal. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(1). |
2021
Barsbai, T., Lukas, D., & Pondofer, A. (2021). Local convergence of behavior across species. Science, 371(6526), 292-295. |
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Lukas, D., Towner, M., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2021). The potential to infer the historical pattern of cultural macroevolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1828): 20200057. |
2020
Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2020). Monotocy and the evolution of plural breeding in mammals. Behavioral Ecology, 31(4), 943-949. |
2019
Kappeler, P. M., Clutton-Brock, T., Shultz, S., & Lukas, D. (2019). Social complexity: Patterns, processes, and evolution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(1): 5. |
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Koster, J., Lukas, D., Nolin, D., Power, E., Alvergne, A., Mace, R., Ross, C. T., Kramer, K., Greaves, R., Caudell, M., Macfarlan, S., Schniter, E., Quinlan, R., Mattison, S., Reynolds, A., Yi-Sum, C., & Massengill, E. (2019). Kinship ties across the lifespan in human communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 374(1780): 20180069. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2019). Climate and the distribution of cooperative breeding in mammals. Royal Society Open Science, 4(1): 160897. |
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Lukas, D., & Huchard, E. (2019). The evolution of infanticide by females in mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 374(1780): 20180075. |
2018
Carter, A. J., Croft, A., Lukas, D., & Sandstrom, G. M. (2018). Women's visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men. PLoS One, 13(9): e0202743. |
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Logan, C. J., Avin, S., Boogert, N., Buskell, A., Cross, F. R., Currie, A., Jelbert, S., Lukas, D., Mares, R., Navarrete, A. F., Shigeno, S., & Montgomery, S. H. (2018). Beyond brain size: Uncovering the neural correlates of behavioral and cognitive specialization. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 13, 55-89. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2018). Social complexity and kinship in animal societies. Ecology Letters, 21(8), 1129-1134. |
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Montgomery, S. H., Currie, A., Lukas, D., Boogert, N., Buskell, A., Cross, F. R., Jelbert, S., Avin, S., Mares, R., Navarrete, A. F., Shigeno, S., & Logan, C. J. (2018). Ingredients for understanding brain and behavioral evolution: Ecology, phylogeny, and mechanism. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 13, 99-104. |
2017
Dixit, T., English, S., & Lukas, D. (2017). The relationship between egg size and helper number in cooperative breeders: A meta-analysis across species. PeerJ, 5: e4028. |
2014
Carter, A. J., Horrocks, N. P., Huchard, E., Logan, C. J., Lukas, D., MacLeod, K. J., Marshall, H. H., Peck, H. L., Sanderson, J. L., & Sorensen, M. C. (2014). Junior scientists are sceptical of sceptics of open access: a reply to Agrawal. Trends in Plant Science, 19(6), 339-340. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2014). Costs of mating competition limit male lifetime breeding success in polygynous mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1786): 20140418. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2014). Evolution of social monogamy in primates is not consistently associated with male infanticide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(17), E1674-E1674. |
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Lukas, D., & Huchard, E. (2014). The evolution of infanticide by males in mammalian societies. Science, 346(6211), 841-844. |
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MacLeod, K. J., & Lukas, D. (2014). Revisiting non-offspring nursing: Allonursing evolves when the costs are low. Biology Letters, 10(6): 378. |
2013
Lukas, D. (2013). Caring for offspring in a world of cheats. PLoS Biology, 11(3): e1001519. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (2013). The evolution of social monogamy in mammals. Science, 341(6145), 526-530. |
2012
Clutton-Brock, T. H., & Lukas, D. (2012). The evolution of social philopatry and dispersal in female mammals. Molecular Ecology, 21(3), 472-492. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2012). Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1736), 2151-2156. |
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Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2012). Life histories and the evolution of cooperative breeding in mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1744), 4065-4070. |
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Thornton, A., & Lukas, D. (2012). Individual variation in cognitive performance: Developmental and evolutionary perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1603), 2773-2783. |
2011
Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (2011). Group structure, kinship, inbreeding risk and habitual female dispersal in plural-breeding mammals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24(12), 2624-2630. |
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Schubert, G., Stoneking, C. J., Arandjelovic, M., Boesch, C., Eckhardt, N., Hohmann, G., Langergraber, K., Lukas, D., & Vigilant, L. (2011). Male-mediated gene flow in patrilocal primates. PLoS One, 6(7): e21514. |
2008
Lukas, D. (2008). Comparative study of genetic variation in relation to social structures of animals. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |
2006
Eriksson, J., Siedel, H., Lukas, D., Kayser, M., Erler, A., Hashimoto, C., Hohmann, G., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2006). Y-chromosome analysis confirms highly sex-biased dispersal and suggests a low male effective population size in bonobos (Pan paniscus). Molecular Ecology, 15(4), 939-949. |
2005
Lukas, D., & Vigilant, L. (2005). Reply: Facts, faeces and setting standards for the study of MHC genes using noninvasive samples. Molecular Ecology, 14(5), 1601-1602. |
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Lukas, D., Reynolds, V., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2005). To what extent does living in a group mean living with kin? Molecular Ecology, 14(7), 2181-2196. |
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Thalmann, O., Serre, D., Hofreiter, M., Lukas, D., Eriksson, J., & Vigilant, L. (2005). Nuclear insertions help and hinder inference of the evolutionary history of gorilla mtDNA. Molecular Ecology, 14(1), 179-188. |
2004
Bradley, B. J., Doran-Sheehy, D. M., Lukas, D., Boesch, C., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Dispersed male networks in western gorillas. Current Biology, 14, 510-513. |
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Lukas, D., Bradley, B. J., Nsubuga, A. M., Robbins, M. M., & Vigilant, L. (2004). Major histocompatibility complex and microsatellite variation in two populations of wild gorillas. Molecular Ecology, 13(11), 3389-3402. |