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Social Evolution welcomes submissions on social behaviour and the evolution of the underlying mechanisms that facilitate this behavior. It aims to promote advances beyond taxonomic boundaries and will publish articles from across the taxonomic spectrum, from bacteria, invertebrates to vertebrates.
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The evolutionary significance of social behavior remains one of the more intriguing questions in biology. While Darwin recognized that the sterile workers of social insects represents a difficulty for his theory, he regarded it as no greater than that of any other striking organismic feature. While subsequent theory has largely resolved Darwin’s ‘difficulty’, explaining the details of the extraordinary diversity of social behavior across the full spectrum of organisms remains an enduring challenge. Social Evolution will provide a forum for this research by publishing a variety of article styles that consider the evolution of social behavior, and the evolution of the underlying mechanisms that facilitate social behavior. Importantly, Social Evolution aims to promote conceptual advances that go beyond taxonomic boundaries, and thus will publish articles from across the taxonomic spectrum, from bacteria, through invertebrates, to vertebrates. Social Evolution takes a broad interpretation of the discipline – to understand the evolution of those social behaviors that have positive fitness consequences for individuals other than the actor, drawing on insights from the range of social organizations variously described as subsociality, communal and cooperative breeding, primitive eusociality, and advanced eusociality. Social Evolution encourages theoretical and empirical studies, with the latter having a strong conceptual framework and rigorous experimental or sampling design.Indexed in: Scopus, Google Scholar, DOAJ, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Cabi, CLOCKSS, OpenAIRE
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Social Evolution welcomes submissions of the following article types: Book Review, Brief Research Report, Correction, Data Report, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Protocols, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge, Systematic Review and Technology Report.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Social Evolution, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Social Evolution will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Ecology and Evolution.
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