Humans are shaped by evolution through natural selection, as are all species. While
evolution is central to all biological processes, the key stage for competition and selection is …

Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the
world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights …

In recent years, biologists and philosophers of science have argued that evolutionary theory
should incorporate more seriously the idea of 'reciprocal causation.'This notion refers to …

Attempts to integrate human culture, history, or symbolic imagination into a comprehensive
theory of evolution have, up to now, foundered on a bifurcation between mind and nature …

In recent years there have been a number of calls for integrating developmental and
organismal phenomena into evolutionary theory. This so-called Extended Evolutionary …

ABSTRACT In Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard argued
that the developmental mechanisms that enable organisms to respond to their environment …

Contemporary understandings of paleoanthropological data illustrate that the search for a
line defining, or a specific point designating,“modern human” is problematic. Here we lend …

Evolution education continues to struggle with a range of persistent challenges spanning
aspects of conceptual understanding, acceptance, and perceived relevance of evolutionary …

Although the evolutionary importance of adaptive phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism of
adaptation to spatial and temporal environmental variation is acknowledged as part of the …

A disposition or dispositional property is a capacity, ability, or potential to display or exhibit
some outcome. Evolvability refers to a disposition to evolve. This chapter discusses why the …