Mathematical evolutionary theory
My publication strategy focuses on quality rather than quantity. I thus encourage you to judge my publications by their content rather than their numbers.
González-Forero M and Gómez-Robles A. Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2T62W
Riffe T, Villavicencio F and González-Forero M. Sensitivity and decomposition of multistate healthy life expectancy. https://dx.doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2024-014
González-Forero M. 2024. Evo-devo dynamics of hominin brain size. Nature Human Behaviour. 8, 1321–1333. Link to journal (open access).
†González-Forero M. 2024. A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology. 155, 24-50. Link to journal (open access).
González-Forero M. 2023. How development affects evolution. Evolution. 77, 562-579. Link to journal (open access).
†González-Forero M* and Peña J. 2021. Eusociality through conflict dissolution. *Proc. R. Soc. B. 288, 20210386. Link to journal (open access).
González-Forero M and Gardner A. 2018. Inference of ecological and social drivers of human brain-size evolution. Nature. 557, 554-557. PDF, SI. News & Views.
González-Forero M, Faulwasser T, and Lehmann L. 2017. A model for brain life history evolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 13, e1005380. Link to journal (open access).
González-Forero M. 2015. Stable eusociality via maternal manipulation when resistance is costless. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28, 2208-2223. PDF.
González-Forero M. 2014. An evolutionary resolution of manipulation conflict. Evolution 68, 2038-2051. PDF.
González-Forero M and Gavrilets S. 2013. Evolution of manipulated behavior. American Naturalist. 182, 439-451. PDF.
†González-Forero M. 2009. Removing ambiguity from the biological species concept. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 256, 76-80. PDF.
*Equal contribution.
†Contains significant supplementary information.
González-Forero M. 2018. The human brain from ecology and seemingly culture. Behind the paper blog post at Nature Ecology and Evolution Community. Link.
González-Forero M. 2018. Why do humans have such large brains? Our study suggests ecology was the driving force. The Conversation. Link