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The Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research (2025)
Journal Article
Voudouris, K., Slater, B., Cheke, L. G., Schellaert, W., Hernández-Orallo, J., Halina, M., Patel, M., Alhas, I., Mecattaf, M. G., Burden, J., Holmes, J., Chaubey, N., Donnelly, N., & Crosby, M. (2025). The Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research. Behavior research methods, 57(4), Article 107. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02616-3

The Animal-AI Environment is a unique game-based research platform designed to facilitate collaboration between the artificial intelligence and comparative cognition research communities. In this paper, we present the latest version of the Animal-AI... Read More about The Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research.

The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies (2024)
Journal Article
Hunt, K. L., Patel, M., Croft, D. P., Franks, D. W., Green, P. A., Thompson, F. J., Johnstone, R. A., Cant, M. A., & Sankey, D. W. (2024). The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies. Nature communications, 15(1), Article 6583. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50621-5

A major goal in evolutionary biology is to elucidate common principles that drive human and other animal societies to adopt either a warlike or peaceful nature. One proposed explanation for the variation in aggression between human societies is the d... Read More about The evolution of democratic peace in animal societies.

Crystal toxins and the volunteer's dilemma in bacteria (2019)
Journal Article
Patel, M., Raymond, B., Bonsall, M. B., & West, S. A. (2019). Crystal toxins and the volunteer's dilemma in bacteria. Journal of evolutionary biology, 32(4), 310-319. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13415

The growth and virulence of the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis depend on the production of Cry toxins, which are used to perforate the gut of its host. Successful invasion of the host relies on producing a threshold amount of toxin, after which ther... Read More about Crystal toxins and the volunteer's dilemma in bacteria.