Alan Flatrès

To discover our results and read our article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl

One of our results shows that local dispersal, by increasing the competition between relatives, can not only prevent the evolution of helping but also promote the evolution of harmful behavior between relatives 👿

Excited to share my latest paper, co-written with @geoffwild , titled "Evolution of redirected help with stepping-stone dispersal"! Here, we ask how the way individuals are dispersing 🔀 changes how they are helping each other after a brood failure 🚫 🪺.

Our results provide a new perspective on the evolution of altruistic behaviors and highlight the importance of life-history.

The emergence of redirected help depends on the benefits provided and on life-history features such as brood failure, dispersal, and survival rates.

My second paper, written with @geoffwild, has been published in @journal_evo! Title: Selective advantages of redirected helping in a viscous population: doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

After a successful defense, I finally finished my PhD at Western University!! My thesis focuses on the impacts of group living features on the evolution of altruistic behaviors. Huge thanks to @geoffwild for the fantastic supervision!

Last weekend I had the opportunity to present my work on the selective advantages of redirected helping in a viscous population at #Evolution2024 conference!

A lot of work but also a lot of pleasure when organizing it! Wonderful experience with wonderful people 🫶

72 participants, more than 26 nationalities from 5 continents. Thank you all for making #EMPSEB29 such a great success! 💙 @EMPSEB29 is more than just a conference, it is a big family!

Thank you @EMPSEB29 , you've been wonderful 🩵 I'm so grateful and happy to have been awarded runner up for the best oral presentation. And this little dude is now out travelling the world on lots of stickers, along with his buddy, the travelling dragonfly

It is such a great honour to have Hanna Kokko @kokkonutter at #EMPSEB29 conference. It was a great talk, bridging theoretical and empirical point of view to understand sex evolution in different systems.

📯@EMPSEB29 kicked off today 📯 The 29th edition of this event finally started with some words of welcome of our committee #evolution #PhD #conference