▪ Abstract The functional causes of life history trade-offs have been a topic of interest to
evolutionary biologists for over six decades. Our review of life history trade-offs discusses …

Parents affect offspring fitness by propagule size and quality, selection of oviposition site,
quality of incubation, feeding of dependent young, and their defence against predators and …

Glucocorticoids hormones (GC s) are intuitively important for mediation of age‐dependent
vertebrate life‐history transitions through their effects on ontogeny alongside underpinning …

Relationships between morphology, physiology, or biochemistry, on the one hand, and
behavior and ecology, on the other, have been widely documented, as this volume attests …

SYNOPSIS. Propagule size is perhaps the most widely recognized and studied maternal
effect in ecology, yet its evolution is not well-understood. The large body of extant optimality …

We approach conceptual issues in evolutionary biology from an endocrinological
perspective, noting that single hormones typically act on several target tissues and thereby …

▪ Abstract Two consequences of terrestrial ectothermy (low energy needs and behavioral
control of body temperatures) have had major consequences for the evolution of reptile life …

This article, which focuses on hormones and the diverse effects they have on behavior and
physiology, raises evolutionary questions that hormonal studies appear especially well …

Nocturnal temperatures are increasing at a pace exceeding diurnal temperatures in most
parts of the world. The role of warmer nocturnal temperatures in animal ecology has …

Here we critically review the scale and extent of adaptive genetic variation in Atlantic salmon
(Salmo salar L.), an important model system in evolutionary and conservation biology that …