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Previous article FreeRetractionChristopher E. Oufiero, Leticia Avilés, and Susan E. RiechertChristopher E. Oufiero1. Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland 21252 Search for more articles by this author , Leticia Avilés2. Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Search for more articles by this author , and Susan E. Riechert1. Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland 21252 Search for more articles by this author 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996Original articleIterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous.Full TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe article “Iterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous,” published in the October 2012 issue of The American Naturalist (pp. 496–510), is retracted by The American Naturalist and the authors of this retraction. Investigation by the journal, which was fully examined by all authors, revealed duplicate ratios of spider mass to prey mass, which was often an exact value (e.g., 0.3, followed by 0.33 and 0.34 exactly). Similar anomalies, with redundant predator-prey mass ratios, were also found for other size categories. These anomalies in data collection by Jonathan N. Pruitt could not be explained, undermining the credibility of the article’s results. On this basis, the authors of this statement regretfully retract the article. Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 197, Number 3March 2021 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/713144 Views: 4504 HistoryPublished online January 19, 2021 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Crossref reports no articles citing this article.Related articlesIterative Evolution of Increased Behavioral Variation Characterizes the Transition to Sociality in Spiders and Proves Advantageous.17 Jul 2015The American Naturalist