The effect of ecological change on evolution has long been a focus of scientific research.
The reverse—how evolutionary dynamics affect ecological traits—has only recently captured …

Recent studies have documented rates of evolution of ecologically important phenotypes
sufficiently fast that they have the potential to impact the outcome of ecological interactions …

Trade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a
central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined …

It is predicted that climate change will cause species extinctions and distributional shifts in
coming decades, but data to validate these predictions are relatively scarce. Here, we …

The past decade has seen a profound change in the scientific understanding of
reproduction. The traditional view of reproduction as a joint venture undertaken by two …

The long history of reciprocal transplant studies testing the hypothesis of local adaptation
has shown that populations are often adapted to their local environments. Yet many studies …

Evolution can be predicted in the short term from a knowledge of selection and inheritance.
However, in the long term evolution is unpredictable because environments, which …

This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding
the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual …

We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue
that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with …

Is genetic evolution predictable? Evolutionary developmental biologists have argued that, at
least for morphological traits, the answer is a resounding yes. Most mutations causing …