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• Pepper, J.W. Selection efficiency in evolutionary optimization. Submitted to Evolutionary Computation.
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• Jun, J., Pepper, J.W., Savage, V.M., Gillooly, J., and Brown, J.H. Allometric scaling of ant foraging trail networks.
• In Press, Evolutionary Ecology Research.
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• Pepper, J.W. & Smuts, B.B. 2002. A mechanism for the evolution of altruism among non-kin: positive assortment through environmental feedback. American Naturalist 160: 205-212 .
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• Pepper, J.W. 2002. The evolution of evolvability in genetic linkage patterns. BioSystems (Special issue on Evolvability), vol 69/2-3 pp. 115 - 126 link

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• Mitani, J.C., Watts, D.P., Pepper, J.W., and Merriwether, D.A. 2002. Demographic and social constraints on male chimpanzee behaviour. Animal Behaviour, 63: 727-737.

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• Pepper, J.W. and Hoelzer, G. 2001. Unveiling mechanisms of collective behavior. (Review of "Self-organization in Biological Systems", by Camazine et al.)  Science 294: 1466-1467.

 

• Pepper, J.W. and Knudsen, T. 2001. Selection without multiple replicators? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(3):550-551.

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• Pepper, J.W. and Smuts, B.B. 2001. Agent-based modeling of multilevel selection: the evolution of feeding restraint as a case study. Pp 57-68 in: W. C. Pitt, ed. Swarmfest 2000, Proceedings of the 4th Annual Swarm User Group Conference. Natural Resources and Environmental Issues, Volume XIII, S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Natural Resources Research Library Logan, UT.

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• Pepper, J.W. 2000. Relatedness in group-structured models of social evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology 206(3):355-368.
  
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• Pepper, J.W. and Smuts, B.B. 2000. The evolution of cooperation in an ecological context: an agent-based model. In: Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes. T. A. Kohler and G. J. Gumerman, eds. Pp. 45-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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• Pepper, J.W., Male, T. and Roberts, G. 2000. The foraging ecology of the South Australian glossy black-cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus. Austral Ecology 25:16-24.
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• Pepper, J.W., Mitani, J.C. and Watts, D.P. 1999. General gregariousness and specific social preferences among wild chimpanzees. International Journal of Primatology 20(5):613-632.
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• Smolker, R.A. and Pepper, J.W. 1999. Whistle convergence among allied male bottlenose dolphins (Delphinidae, Tursiops sp.). Ethology 105:595-617.
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• Heinrich, B. and Pepper, J.W. 1998. Influence of competitors on caching behavior in the common raven, Corvus corvax. Animal Behaviour 56:1083-1090.
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• Pepper, J.W. 1997. A survey of the South Australian glossy black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus) and its habitat. Wildlife Research 24:209-223.
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• Arnett, A.E. and Pepper, J.W. 1997. Evidence of mate guarding in the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami. Emu 97:177-180.

 
• Pepper, J. W. 1996. The behavioral ecology of the glossy black-cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus. Ph.D. thesis, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
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• Smolker, R.A., Richards, A.F., Connor, R.C. and Pepper, J.W. 1992. Sex differences in patterns of association among Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins. Behaviour 123(1-2):38-69.
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• Pepper, J.W. 1992. A new food source for the Glossy Black Cockatoo. South Australian Ornithologist 31(6):144-145.

• Pepper, J.W., Braude, S.H., Lacey, E.A. and Sherman, P.W. 1990. Vocalizations of the naked mole-rat. In: The Biology of the Naked Mole-rat. P.W. Sherman, J.U.M. Jarvis, and R.D. Alexander, eds. Pp. 243-274. Princeton University Press: Princeton.

• Chamberlain, S.C., Pepper, J.W., Battelle, B.-A., Wyse, G.A. and Lewandowski, T.J. 1986. Immunoreactivity in Limulus. II. Studies of serotonin-like immunoreactivity, endogenous serotonin, and serotonin synthesis in the brain and lateral eye. Journal of Comparative Neurology 251:363-375.

• Battelle, B.A., Truckenmiller, M.E. and Pepper, J.W. 1983. Development of rat retinal neurons in monolayer culture: effect of elevating the concentration of K⁺ in the growth medium. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 9, Part 2, p. 1099.