BACKGROUND As global climate change accelerates, one of the most urgent tasks for the
coming decades is to develop accurate predictions about biological responses to guide the …

Decades of research have illuminated the underlying ingredients that determine the scope
of evolutionary responses to climate change. The field of evolutionary biology therefore …

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

Inbreeding depression is ubiquitous, but we still know little about its genetic architecture and
precise effects in wild populations. Here, we combine long-term life-history data with 417 K …

The concept of kinship permeates many domains of fundamental and applied biology
ranging from social evolution to conservation science to quantitative and human genetics …

The estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in wild populations is generally limited by
the accuracy and completeness of the available pedigree information. Using relatedness at …

The potential for selective harvests to induce rapid evolutionary change is an important
question for conservation and evolutionary biology, with numerous biological, social and …

The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …

Indirect genetic effects (IGE) occur when the genotype of an individual affects the phenotypic
trait value of another conspecific individual. IGEs can have profound effects on both the …

Although there are many examples of contemporary directional selection, evidence for
responses to selection that match predictions are often missing in quantitative genetic …