Individuals often differ in what they do. This has been recognised since antiquity.
Nevertheless, the ecological and evolutionary significance of such variation is attracting …

A growing number of biologists have begun asking whether environmentally induced
phenotypic change––'phenotypic plasticity'––precedes and facilitates the origin and …

Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise.
Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that …

While numerous studies have been conducted on the ecology and evolution of phenotypic
plasticity, to really understand plasticity we need to expose organisms to different …

Despite their highly conserved body plan and larval stage, adult life history type in lampreys
diverges on two main axes related to migration and feeding. Of the 41–45 recognized …

Cannibalism, once viewed as a rare or aberrant behavior, is now recognized to be
widespread and to contribute broadly to the self‐regulation of many populations …

A major goal of evolutionary biology is to identify the causes of diversification and to
ascertain why some evolutionary lineages are especially diverse. Evolutionary biologists …

Whether or not a frog is just a tadpole's way of making another tadpole, the larvae of
amphibians have been long underemphasized in science, education, and conservation …

Developmental plasticity facilitates morphological and behavioral novelty. Nematodes have
emerged as a powerful model to study developmental plasticity and its evolution. Here, we …

Theory and empirical studies suggest that cannibalism in age‐structured populations can
regulate recruitment depending on the intensity of intraspecific competition between …