Publications
Research articles, reviews, and commentary on social evolution, kin recognition, and macroevolution.
Published papers
2020 · Natural reward drives the advancement of life
Gilbert, O. M.
Rethinking Ecology 5: 1–35
2018 · Altruism or association?
Gilbert, O. M.
PNAS 115: E3069–E3070 · Commentary
2015 · Microscale kin discrimination in a famous soil bacterium
Gilbert, O. M.
PNAS 112: 13757–13758 · Commentary
2015 · Histocompatibility as adaptive response to discriminatory within-organism conflict: a historical model
Gilbert, O. M.
The American Naturalist 185: 228–242
2012 · Mind the gap: a comparative study of migratory behavior in social amoebae
Gilbert, O. M., Kuzdzal-Fick, J. J., Queller, D. C., & Strassmann, J. E.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 1291–1296
2012 · High relatedness in a social amoeba: the role of kin-discriminatory segregation
Gilbert, O. M., Strassmann, J. E., & Queller, D. C.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2619–2624
2011 · Kin discrimination and cooperation in microbes
Strassmann, J. E., Gilbert, O. M., & Queller, D. C.
Annual Review of Microbiology 65: 349–367 · Review
2009 · Discovery of a large clonal patch of a social amoeba: implications for social evolution
Gilbert, O. M., Queller, D. C., & Strassmann, J. E.
Molecular Ecology 18: 1273–1281
2007 · High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants
Gilbert, O. M., Foster, K. R., Mehdiabadi, N. J., Strassmann, J. E., & Queller, D. C.
PNAS 104: 8913–8917
2005 · Turbulence decreases the hydrodynamic predator sensing ability of the calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa
Gilbert, O. M., & Buskey, E. J.
Journal of Plankton Research 27: 1067–1071
Preprints
2019 · Natural reward as the fundamental macroevolutionary force
Gilbert, O. M. · arXiv:1903.09567
An earlier, extended account complementing the 2020 article.
2017 · Association theory: a new framework for analyzing social evolution
Gilbert, O. M. · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/197632
The general framework and evidence for its predictions.
Work in progress
My current work develops a genealogical bridge between population-genetic, inclusive-fitness, and regression models of social evolution. Related projects address the measurement of social benefits and costs, the selective background effect, and adaptive landscapes.
I am also developing work on scientific innovation and funding institutions, and the book The Advancement of Life: How Natural Reward Gives Evolution the Power to Innovate.