About this Research Topic
Understanding the diversity of evolutionary systems has led to the use of a diversity of modelling approaches, including mathematical models, data-driven approaches and simulation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is proud to introduce a new series of collections, inspired by our Models in Ecology and Evolution section.
The evolutionary causes of social behavior remains one of the more intriguing questions in biology and explaining the details of the extraordinary diversity of social behavior across the full spectrum of organisms remains an enduring challenge. Models in Social Evolution welcomes manuscripts that focus on implementing, using and evaluating models, spanning approaches from conceptual models through computer simulation to models that describe data. We also welcome manuscripts that focus on the theoretical basis of social evolutionary questions.
Research published in this collection might include studies that:
• Use models (e.g. mathematical or simulation) to describe and understand fundamental social evolutionary processes
• Present innovative approaches, including statistical packages/functions, for model development, evaluation and communication
{Authors may be asked to make reproducible code used to conduct their research available. If so, this code should be clearly indicated in the Materials and Methods section, and where possible, uploaded to an online repository (such as github or code ocean) providing a global persistent link/identifier. You can read our full data and code policies in our Author Guidelines.}
The evolutionary causes of social behavior remains one of the more intriguing questions in biology and explaining the details of the extraordinary diversity of social behavior across the full spectrum of organisms remains an enduring challenge. Models in Social Evolution welcomes manuscripts that focus on implementing, using and evaluating models, spanning approaches from conceptual models through computer simulation to models that describe data. We also welcome manuscripts that focus on the theoretical basis of social evolutionary questions.
Research published in this collection might include studies that:
• Use models (e.g. mathematical or simulation) to describe and understand fundamental social evolutionary processes
• Present innovative approaches, including statistical packages/functions, for model development, evaluation and communication
{Authors may be asked to make reproducible code used to conduct their research available. If so, this code should be clearly indicated in the Materials and Methods section, and where possible, uploaded to an online repository (such as github or code ocean) providing a global persistent link/identifier. You can read our full data and code policies in our Author Guidelines.}
Keywords: social evolution, modeling approaches
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