Cognition is defined as the processes by which animals collect, retain and use information
from their environment to guide their behaviour. Thus cognition is essential in a wide range …

The use of molecular techniques for parentage analysis has been a booming science for
over a decade. The most important technological breakthrough was the introduction of …

Efforts to understand the links between evolutionary and ecological dynamics hinge on our
ability to measure and understand how genes influence phenotypes, fitness and population …

In this study, we used insurance claims for over one-third of the entire US population to
create a subset of 128,989 families (481,657 unique individuals). We then used these data …

Related individuals often have similar phenotypes, but this similarity may be due to the
effects of shared environments as much as to the effects of shared genes. We consider here …

Metrics derived from pedigrees are key to investigating several major issues in evolutionary
biology, including the quantitative genetic architecture of traits, inbreeding depression, 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 …

Labile characters allow individuals to flexibly adjust their phenotype to changes in
environmental conditions. There is growing evidence that individuals can differ both in …

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 …

Individual differences in telomere length have been linked to survival and senescence.
Understanding the heritability of telomere length can provide important insight into individual …