For centuries, people believed that bats possessed sinister powers. Bats are thought to be
ancestral hosts to many deadly viruses affecting humans including Ebola, rabies, and most …

Life history strategies, which combine schedules of survival, development, and reproduction,
shape how natural selection acts on species' heritable traits and organismal fitness …

Climate change is impacting virtually all marine life. Adaptation strategies will require a
robust understanding of the risks to species and ecosystems and how those propagate to …

Chronic psychosocial stress increases disease risk and mortality, but the underlying
mechanisms remain largely unclear. Here we outline an energy-based model for the …

The social brain hypothesis posits that social complexity is the primary driver of primate
cognitive complexity, and that social pressures ultimately led to the evolution of the large …

Animals exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies. These realized
combinations of survival, development and reproduction are predicted to be constrained by …

In spite of a growing body of research and data, human ageing remains a poorly understood
process. Over 10 years ago we developed the Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR) …

A major constraint on the evolution of large body sizes in animals is an increased risk of
develo** cancer. There is no correlation, however, between body size and cancer risk …

A longstanding issue in biology is whether the intelligence of animals can be predicted by
absolute or relative brain size. However, progress has been hampered by an insufficient …

Bats are unique among mammals, possessing some of the rarest mammalian adaptations,
including true self-powered flight, laryngeal echolocation, exceptional longevity, unique …