The question as to why primates have evolved unusually large brains has received much
attention, with many alternative proposals all supported by evidence. We review the main …

There is considerable debate about whether community ecology will ever produce general
principles. We suggest here that this can be achieved but that community ecology has lost its …

Aim The spatial extent (scale) at which landscape attributes are measured has a strong
impact on inferred species–landscape relationships. Consequently, researchers commonly …

A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

Examining biological diversity in an explicitly evolutionary context has been the subject of
research for several decades, yet relatively recent advances in analytical techniques and the …

Among the species in the family Salmonidae, those represented by the genera Salmo,
Salvelinus, and Oncorhynchus (subfamily Salmoninae) are the most studied. Here, various …

The first photographs of the Earth to be taken from outer space are said to have had a
profound influence on how humanity perceives its place in the Universe. They provided a …

Charles Darwin's travels on HMS Beagle taught him that islands are an important source of
evidence for evolution. Because many islands are young and have relatively few species …

Body size is a key feature of organisms and varies continuously because of the effects of
natural selection on the size‐dependency of resource acquisition and mortality rates. This …

Island faunas can be characterized by gigantism in small animals and dwarfism in large
animals, but the extent to which this so-called 'island rule'provides a general explanation for …