Trade‐offs are a core component of many evolutionary models, particularly those dealing
with the evolution of life histories. In the present paper, we identify four topics of key …

The genic capture hypothesis offers a resolution to the question of how genetic variation in
male sexually selected traits is maintained in the face of strong female preferences. The …

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional
conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality. Though conventional …

Basic knowledge about the rate and range of mutation is central to our understanding of
numerous evolutionary processes that include maintaining sexual reproduction and rates of …

Mildly deleterious mutation has been invoked as a leading explanation for a diverse array of
observations in evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution and is thought to be a …

Mutation enables evolution, but the idea that adaptation is also shaped by mutational
variation is controversial,,,. Simple evolutionary hypotheses predict such a relationship if the …

Despite much theoretical work, the molecular-genetic causes and evolutionary
consequences of asexuality remain largely undetermined. Asexual animal species are rare …

As anthropogenic environmental changes spread and intensify across the planet,
conservation biologists have to analyze dynamics at large spatial and temporal scales …

In an effort to elucidate the evolutionary mechanisms that determine the genetic architecture
of a species, we have analyzed 17 populations of the microcrustacean Daphnia pulex for …

Estimates of the rate and frequency distribution of deleterious effects were obtained for the
first time by direct scoring and characterization of individual mutations. This was achieved by …