The evolution of insect metamorphosis is one of the most important sagas in animal history,
transforming small, obscure soil arthropods into a dominant terrestrial group that has …

The Gompertz model is well known and widely used in many aspects of biology. It has been
frequently used to describe the growth of animals and plants, as well as the number or …

Abstract George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated
as adaptive radiations—more or less simultaneous divergences of numerous lines from a …

Humans have a protracted postnatal helplessness period, typically attributed to human-
specific maternal constraints causing an early birth when the brain is highly immature. By …

Aim As urban landscapes expand, shifts in biodiversity are occurring. This is leading
biogeographers and ecologists to consider human‐dominated landscapes in their current …

Ecologists studying bird foraging ecology have generally focused on food quantity over
quality. Emerging work suggests that food quality, in terms of highly unsaturated omega‐3 …

Birds show bewildering diversity in their life histories, mating systems and risk of extinction.
Why do albatrosses delay reproduction for the first 12 years of their life while zebra finches …

Physiological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds is the most current and comprehensive
account of research on avian reproduction. It develops two unique themes: the consideration …

Traits such as clutch size vary markedly across species and environmental gradients but
have usually been investigated from either a comparative or a geographic perspective …

Lactation represents an important element of the life history strategies of all mammals,
whether monotreme, marsupial, or eutherian. Milk originated as a glandular skin secretion in …