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  • Based on a consensus conference of experts in the evolution and ecology of cancer, this article proposes a framework for classifying tumours that includes four evolutionary and ecological processes: neoplastic cell diversity and changes over time in that diversity, hazards to cell survival and available resources.

    • Carlo C. Maley
    • Athena Aktipis
    • Darryl Shibata
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 17, P: 605-619

  • Evolutionary life history theory posits that some organisms reproduce rapidly whereas others invest more resources in survival. This framework might help us to understand the diversity of phenotypes that are displayed by tumour cells, including stem cell-like phenotypes, and could have important clinical implications.

    • C. Athena Aktipis
    • Amy M. Boddy
    • Carlo C. Maley
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Cancer
    Volume: 13, P: 883-892

  • Risk-pooling systems have been developed as a way to collectively manage risk and can protect against loss in times of crisis. Cronk and Aktipis present seven design principles for risk-pooling systems and discuss how they are used by human communities worldwide.

    • Lee Cronk
    • Athena Aktipis
    Reviews
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 5, P: 825-833

  • There is currently a lack of consensus as to why women’s ovulation is concealed. Using an agent-based model, Krems et al. support a female rivalry hypothesis: concealed ovulation may have allowed women to avoid same-sex aggression.

    • Jaimie Arona Krems
    • Scott Claessens
    • Athena Aktipis
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 5, P: 726-735

  • Some acts of human cooperation are not easily explained by traditional models of kinship or reciprocity. Fitness interdependence may provide a unifying conceptual framework, in which cooperation arises from the mutual dependence for survival or reproduction, as occurs among mates, risk-pooling partnerships and brothers-in-arms.

    • Athena Aktipis
    • Lee Cronk
    • Pamela Winfrey
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 2, P: 429-431

  • Cooperative interactions among tumor cells may have important implications for metastasis. Here, the authors examined the spatio-temporal nature of interactions among clonal populations of ovarian carcinoma cells and found that transient interactions cells can promote metastases via commensal interactions.

    • Suha Naffar-Abu Amara
    • Hendrik J. Kuiken
    • Joan S. Brugge
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-17

  • Resistance to antimicrobials and pesticides — collectively, biocides — undermines human health and food production. This Review assesses options for governing and promoting susceptibility to biocides to remain within the planet’s safe operating space.

    • Peter Søgaard Jørgensen
    • Athena Aktipis
    • Scott P. Carroll
    Reviews
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 1, P: 632-641

  • The evolutionary biology of cancers and organismal species are similar: in both cases, a genetically diverse population mutates and evolves through natural selection. In addition, driving both species and cancers to extinction is extremely difficult. Nevertheless, greater than 99.9% of species that have lived on Earth are now extinct, and the parallels between tumours and organismal evolution suggest that understanding species extinction through paleontology could teach us much about how to eradicate cancers. In this Review, the selective pressures that have driven species extinct and the characteristics of species that make them resistant to extinction are described, and how these factors can be translated to cancers in order to develop improved approaches to therapy and prognosis is discussed.

    • Viola Walther
    • Crispin T. Hiley
    • Carlo C. Maley
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
    Volume: 12, P: 273-285