Biparental care and social evolution in burying beetles: lessons from the larder
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Burying beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Nicrophorus) exhibit elaborate biparental care. Males and females independently search for small vertebrate carcasses, which serve as the sole food source for developing young. Both parents prepare the carcass for burial, excavate a cavity in the carcass within which the young feed, provision the young during the early stages of their development, and protect them from conspecific and interspecific predators and competitors. Carrion is an extremely nutrient–rich resource, but it can vary greatly in quantity and quality, and owing to its rarity and ephemeral nature, its occurrence is highly unpredictable. We propose that many of the sexual and parental behaviors of Nicrophorus can be regarded as adaptations to the unique problems posed by these resource features. Competition for carrion is intense; consequently, traits that help reduce or eliminate competition, such as carcass burial, should increase reproductive success.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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