Human height is a highly variable trait, both within and between populations, has a high
heritability, and influences the manner in which people behave and are treated in society …

Understanding the genetic architecture of disease is an enormous challenge, and should be
guided by evolutionary principles. Recent studies in evolutionary genetics show that sexual …

The evolution of sexual dimorphism is constrained by a shared genome, leading to 'sexual
antagonism', in which different alleles at given loci are favoured by selection in males and …

Sex-differential selection (SDS), which occurs when the fitness effects of alleles differ
between males and females, can have profound impacts on the maintenance of genetic …

Objectives The study of assortative mating for height has a rich history in human biology.
Although the positive correlation between the stature of spouses has often been noted in …

How common is balancing selection, and what fraction of phenotypic variance is attributable
to balanced polymorphisms? Despite decades of research, answers to these questions …

It is now becoming widely recognized that there are important sex differences in disease.
These include rates of disease incidence, symptoms and age of onset. These differences …

Is fertility relevant to evolutionary analyses conducted in modern industrial societies? This
question has been the subject of a highly contentious debate, beginning in the late 1980s …

The Dutch are the tallest people on earth. Over the last 200 years, they have grown 20 cm in
height: a rapid rate of increase that points to environmental causes. This secular trend in …

Sexual conflict has extremely important consequences for various evolutionary processes
including its effect on local adaptation and extinction probability during environmental …