Richard Levins's 1966 article" The strategy of model building in population biology" is an
extremely influential analysis of the nature of scientific model building. His claims that model …

Population genetics occupies a central role in a number of important biological and social
undertakings. It is fundamental to our understanding of evolutionary processes, of plant and …

The selection-arena hypothesis Page 1 337 The selection-arena hypothesis SC Stearns
Selection for juvenile survival is always strong, whether fecundity in the species is high or low …

Among many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals, grown offspring remain with their
parents and aid them in rearing successive broods/litters of young. Through such actions …

Abstract Models of sex-ratio evolution in structured populations are derived with GR Price's
covariance form for the hierarchical analysis of natural selection (1970, Nature 227, 520 …

Gene-culture coevolutionary theory has been developed specifically to explore the
interaction between genetic and cultural processes. The theory builds on standard …

When density-dependent population regulation occurs independently in different habitats
within a mosaic environment, a form of frequency-dependent selection can maintain genetic …

A variety of sex allocation models is considered in which (i) the reproductive returns on
investment in males differ from the returns on investment in females,(ii) the amounts of …

Most sexually reproducing species have sexual proportions around 1: 1. This major
biological phenomenon remained unexplained until 1930, when Fisher proposed that it …

Evolutionary game theory is used to show that if all members of a population use an
evolutionarily stable strategy, it does not imply that such a strategy will tend to evolve. It is …