Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Five decades ago, a landmark paper in Science titled The Cave Environment heralded
caves as ideal natural experimental laboratories in which to develop and address general …

Speciation rates vary considerably among lineages, and our understanding of what drives
the rapid succession of speciation events within young adaptive radiations remains …

Although some lineages of animals and plants have made impressive adaptive radiations
when provided with ecological opportunity, the propensities to radiate vary profoundly …

A fundamental goal in evolutionary biology is to understand the genetic architecture of
adaptive traits. Using whole-genome data of 3955 of Darwin's finches on the Galápagos …

Adaptive radiations represent some of the most remarkable explosions of diversification
across the tree of life. However, the constraints to rapid diversification and how they are …

Islands have played a prominent role in evolutionary and ecological theory, centring the
theoretical framework for understanding biodiversity in terms of isolation and area and …

Recent adaptive radiations are models for investigating mechanisms contributing to the
evolution of biodiversity. An unresolved question is the relative importance of new mutations …

A recurring feature of oceanic archipelagos is the presence of adaptive radiations that
generate endemic, species-rich clades that can offer outstanding insight into the links …

Understanding the processes that drive phenotypic diversification and underpin speciation
is key to elucidating how biodiversity has evolved. Although these processes have been …