Daniel Wayne Franks

This study shows that group size affects kinship dynamics and age-related social behaviors in social mammals, with smaller groups promoting more extreme helping/harming behaviors, especially in younger individuals.

This study extends kinship dynamics models to include age-linked changes in survival and fecundity, showing improved predictions of female kinship dynamics in killer whales across life stages.

The paper addresses bias in estimating edge weights in sparse animal social networks by introducing zero-inflation into a Bayesian framework, demonstrating improved performance over frequentist methods in elephant data.