Contact
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewski@eva.mpg.de
Publications
In preparation
Logan, C. J., Bergeron, L., McCune, K., Folsom, M., & Lukas, D. (in preparation). Is behavioral flexibility related to foraging and social behavior in a rapidly expanding species? ![]() | |
Logan, C. J., Rowney, C., Bergeron, L., McCune, K., Trumble, B., Blackwell, A., Escalante, A., Pacheco, M., & Lukas, D. (in preparation). How and why does behavioral flexibility vary across the range of a rapidly expanding species? ![]() | |
Logan, C. J., Rowney, C., Bergeron, L., McCune, K., Trumble, B., Blackwell, A., Escalante, A., Pacheco, M., Lukas, D., & Wascher, C. (in preparation). What are the costs and constraints of behavioral flexibility in great-tailed grackles? ![]() | |
Logan, C. J., Rowney, C., McCune, K., Blackwell, A., & Lukas, D. (in preparation). The genetics of behavioral flexibility across the range of a rapidly expanding species. ![]() |
2019
Carter, A. J., Croft, A., Lukas, D., & Sandstrom, G. M. (2019). Correction: Women’s visibility in academic seminars: Women ask fewer questions than men. PLoS One,14(2): e0212146. ![]() | |
Kappeler, P. M., Clutton-Brock, T., Shultz, S., & Lukas, D. (2019). Social complexity: Patterns, processes, and evolution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology,73(1): 5. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. SocArXiv. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2019). Climate and the distribution of cooperative breeding in mammals. Royal Society Open Science,4(1): 160897. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. (2018). Social complexity and kinship in animal societies. Ecology Letters,21(8), 1129-1134. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Lukas, D., & Huchard, E. (2018). The evolution of infanticide by females in mammals. bioRxiv, 405688. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Lukas, D., & Huchard, E. (2014). The evolution of infanticide by males in mammalian societies. Science,346(6211), 841-844. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
MacLeod, K. J., & Lukas, D. (2014). Revisiting non-offspring nursing: Allonursing evolves when the costs are low. Biology Letters,10(6): 378. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2013
Lukas, D. (2013). Caring for offspring in a world of cheats. PLoS Biology,11(3): e1001519. ![]() | |
Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (2013). The evolution of social monogamy in mammals. Science,341(6145), 526-530. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
2012
Clutton-Brock, T. H., & Lukas, D. (2012). The evolution of social philopatry and dispersal in female mammals. Molecular Ecology,21(3), 472-492. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |