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Schematic of the thesis presented in the text. Physiology acts as a filter between environmental selection pressures and developmental processes to influence fission and fusion dynamics in animals. Group composition and fission–fusion events may feed back to physiology if individuals within groups or populations are sorted according to their physiological characteristics, thereby altering gene flow and selection.
