Andrew D Higginson
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Recent Articles
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Giske J, Dumitru M, Enberg K, Folkedal O, Handeland S, Higginson A, et al.
Behav Processes
. 2025 Feb;
226:105163.
PMID: 39909180
Many species of fish, birds and mammals commonly live in human captivity; Atlantic salmon Salmo salar is one of them. The international legal status of the welfare of captive animals...
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Barreaux A, Higginson A, Bonsall M, English S
Proc Biol Sci
. 2022 Feb;
289(1969):20211884.
PMID: 35168397
Iteroparous parents face a trade-off between allocating current resources to reproduction versus maximizing survival to produce further offspring. Parental allocation varies across age and follows a hump-shaped pattern across diverse...
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Ito K, Higginson A, Ruxton G, Papastamatiou Y
J Anim Ecol
. 2021 Oct;
91(3):527-539.
PMID: 34652820
Models of foraging behaviour typically assume that prey do not adapt to temporal variation in predation risk, such as by avoiding foraging at certain times of the day. When this...
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Kennedy P, Higginson A, Radford A, Sumner S
Nature
. 2018 Mar;
555(7696):359-362.
PMID: 29513655
The evolution of altruism-costly self-sacrifice in the service of others-has puzzled biologists since The Origin of Species. For half a century, attempts to understand altruism have developed around the concept...
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Higginson A, Fawcett T, Houston A, McNamara J
Proc Biol Sci
. 2018 Jan;
285(1871).
PMID: 29367396
Approaches to understanding adaptive behaviour often assume that animals have perfect information about environmental conditions or are capable of sophisticated learning. If such learning abilities are costly, however, natural selection...
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Higginson A, McNamara J, Dall S
Behav Brain Sci
. 2018 Jan;
40:e118.
PMID: 29342582
Addressing the obesity epidemic depends on a holistic understanding of the reasons that people become and maintain excessive fat. Theories about the causes of obesity usually focus proximately or evoke...
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Higginson A
Behav Ecol Sociobiol
. 2017 Jul;
71(7):99.
PMID: 28706341
Abstract: Human alterations of habitats are causing declines in many species worldwide. The extent of declines varies greatly among closely related species, for often unknown reasons that must be understood...
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Rosenstrom T, Fawcett T, Higginson A, Metsa-Simola N, Hagen E, Houston A, et al.
PLoS One
. 2017 Jun;
12(6):e0179495.
PMID: 28614385
Divorce is associated with an increased probability of a depressive episode, but the causation of events remains unclear. Adaptive models of depression propose that depression is a social strategy in...
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The Impact of Detoxification Costs and Predation Risk on Foraging: Implications for Mimicry Dynamics
Halpin C, Skelhorn J, Rowe C, Ruxton G, Higginson A
PLoS One
. 2017 Jan;
12(1):e0169043.
PMID: 28045959
Prey often evolve defences to deter predators, such as noxious chemicals including toxins. Toxic species often advertise their defence to potential predators by distinctive sensory signals. Predators learn to associate...
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Higginson A, Munafo M
PLoS Biol
. 2016 Nov;
14(11):e2000995.
PMID: 27832072
We can regard the wider incentive structures that operate across science, such as the priority given to novel findings, as an ecosystem within which scientists strive to maximise their fitness...