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Selected publications

2022
Garcia-Porta, J., Sol, D., Pennell, M., Sayol, F., Kalionzopoulou, A. & CA Botero. 2022 Niche expansion and adaptive divergence in the global radiation of crows and ravens. Nature Communications 13, 2086. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29707-5.
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Baldwin J, Garcia-Porta J, Botero CA. 2022. Phenotypic responses to climate change are significantly dampened in big-brained birds. Ecology Letters. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13971.
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2021
Haynie HJ, Kavanagh PH, Jordan F, Ember CR, Gray RD, Grenhil SJ, Kirby KR, Kushnick G, Low BS,  Tuff T, Vilela B, Botero CA, Gavin MC. 2021. Pathways to social inequality. Evolutionary Human Sciences 3 (E35). doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.32
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Cook CN, Beever EA, Thurman LL, Thompson LM, Gross JE, Whiteley AR, Nicotra A, Szymanski J, Botero CA, Hall K, Hoffmann AA, Schuurman G, Sgrò CM. 2021. Supporting the adaptive capacity of species through more effective knowledge exchange with conservation practitioners. Evolutionary Applications 00: 1-11.
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Evans1 CL, Greenhill SJ, Watts J,  List J-M, Botero CA, Gray RD & KR Kirby. 2021. The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 376: 20200056.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0056
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2020
Vilela B, Fristoe T, Tuff T, Kavanagh PH, Haynie HJ, Gray RD, Gavin M, & CA Botero. 2020. Cultural transmission and early ecological opportunity jointly shaped the global distribution of human agriculture. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2, e53, doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.55.
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Fasanello, V, P Liu, CA Botero, and J Fay. 2020. High-throughput experimental evolution using barcoded strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PeerJ. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/731349.
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Kavanagh, P.H., Haynie, H.J., Kushnick, G., Vilela, B., Tuff, T., Bowern, C., Low, B.S., Ember, C.R., Kirby, K.R., Botero, C.A. and Gavin, M.C. (2020), Drivers of global variation in land ownership. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.05205
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Antonson ND, Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME, CA Botero. 2020. Ecological uncertainty favours the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites. Nature Communications. 11(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18038-y.
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2019
Haaland, T & CA Botero. 2019. Alternative responses to rare selection events are differentially vulnerable to changes in the frequency, scope and intensity of environmental extremes. Ecology and Evolution 00: 1-10. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5675.
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Fristoe T & CA Botero. 2019. Alternative ecological strategies lead to avian brain size bimodality in variable habitats. Nature Communications. 10:3818 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11757-x
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Bernal XE, Rojas B, Pinto MA, et al. 2019. Empowering Latina scientists. Science 363 (6429), 825-826.
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2018
Gavin MC, Kavanagh PH, Haynie HJ, Bowern C, Ember CR, Gray RD, Jordan FM, Kirby KR, Kushnick G, Low BS, Vilela B & CA Botero. 2018. The global geography of human subsistence. Royal Society Open Science 5 (9), 171897. doi: 10.1098/rsos.171897
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Kavanagh PH, Vilela B, Haynie HJ, Tuff T, Lima-Ribeiro M, Gray RD, Botero CA and MC Gavin. 2018. Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture. Nature Human Behavior. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0358-8. ​
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Comment by Dolores Piperno  
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2017
Fristoe T, Iwaniuk A, & CA Botero. 2017. Big brains stabilize population dynamics and facilitate colonization of variable habitats in birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0316-2. ​
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Griesser M, SM Drobniak, S Nakagawa & CA Botero. 2017. Family living sets the stage for cooperative breeding and ecological resilience in birds. PLoS Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2000483.
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Comment by Walter Koenig
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Cooney CR, JA Tobias, JT Weir, CA Botero & N Seddon. 2017. Sexual selection, speciation and constraints on geographical range overlap in birds. Ecology Letters. doi:10.1111/ele.12780.
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Cornwallis, CK, CA Botero, DR Rubenstein, PA Downing, SA West & AS Griffin. 2017. Cooperation facilitates the colonisation of harsh environments. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-016-0057.
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Gavin, MC, TF Rangel, C Bowern, RK Colwell, KR Kirby, CA Botero, M Dunn, RR Dunn, J McCarter, and RD Gray. 2017. Process-based modeling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26: 584-591. doi: 10.1111/geb.12563.
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2016
KR Kirby, DE Blasi, CA Botero, C Bowern, K Cranston, C Ember, W Divale, R Gray, SJ Greenhill, F Jordan, D Leehr, B S Low, J McCarter, S Gomes-Ng, and M Gavin. 2016. D-PLACE: A Global Database of Peoples, Languages, Cultures, and Environment. PLoS ONE. 11(7), e0158391. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158391
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Rubenstein DR, CA Botero, and EA Lacey. 2016. Discrete but variable structure in animal societies leads to the false perception of a social continuum. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160147. dog: 10.1098/rsos.160147
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2015
Sheehan MJ, CA Botero, TA Hendry, BE Sedio, JM Jandt, S Weiner, AL Toth and EA Tibbetts. 2015. Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest founding associations in Polistespaper wasps. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12488.
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Botero CA, FJ Weissing, J Wright, and DR Rubenstein. 2015. Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 112(1): 184-189. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408589111
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2014
Botero CA, Gardner B, Kirby KR, Bulbulia J, Gavin MC and R Gray. 2014. The ecology of religious beliefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 111(47) 16784-16789. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408701111
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Botero CA, R Dor, C McCain, and RJ Safran. 2014. Environmental harshness is positively correlated with intraspecific divergence in mammals and birds. Molecular Ecology 23: 259-268. doi: 10.1111/mec.12572​
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2013
Gavin MC, CA Botero, C Bowern, RK Colwell, M Dunn, RR Dunn, RD Gray, KR Kirby, J McCarter, A Powell, T Rangel, J Stepp, M Trautwein, JL Verdolin, and G Yanega. 2013. Towards a mechanistic understanding of linguistic diversity.  Bioscience 63(7):524-535.
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Seddon, N*, CA Botero*, JA Tobias, PO Dunn, HEA MacGregor, DR Rubenstein, JAC Uy, JT Weir, LA Whittingham, and RJ Safran. 2013.  Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280(1766): 20131085. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1065 [* Joint first authors / equal contribution].
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Botero, CA & de Kort, SR. 2013. Learned signals and consistency of delivery: a case against receiver manipulation in animal communication.  In:  Stegmann, U. (ed) Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Cambridge University Press. p. 281-296.
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Earlier
Botero, CA & Rubenstein DR.  2012.  Fluctuating environments, sexual selection and the evolution of flexible mate choice in birds.  PLoS ONE. 7(2): e32311. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032311.
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Botero, CA, I. Pen, J. Komdeur, and F.J. Weissing. 2010. The evolution of individual variation in communication strategies. Evolution. 64: 3123-3133.
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Botero, CA, Boogert, N, Lovette, IJ, and Vehrencamp, SL. 2009. Climatic patterns predict the elaboration of song displays in mockingbirds. Current Biology. 19:1-5. 
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