My research focuses on understanding why animal species differ so widely in their social behaviour. My work involves classifying the extent of cooperation and competition between individuals in a wide range of species and to identify which aspects of an environment are shared between species with similar behaviour

The Evolution of Social Monogamy in MammalsD Lukas, TH Clutton-BrockScience 341 (6145), 526-530 Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societiesD Lukas, TH Clutton-BrockProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: Life histories and the evolution of cooperative breeding in mammalsD Lukas, T Clutton-BrockProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1744), 4065-4070 To what extent does living in a group mean living with kin?D Lukas, V Reynolds, C Boesch, L VigilantMolecular Ecology 14 (7), 2181-2196 Dispersed male networks in western gorillasBJ Bradley, DM Doran-Sheehy, D Lukas, C Boesch, L VigilantCurrent Biology 14 (6), 510-513