The evolution of body size: what keeps organisms small?

WU Blanckenhorn - The quarterly review of biology, 2000‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
It is widely agreed that fecundity selection and sexual selection are the major evolutionary
forces that select for larger body size in most organisms. The general, equilibrium view is …

The evolution of trade‐offs: where are we?

DA Roff, DJ Fairbairn - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
Trade‐offs are a core component of many evolutionary models, particularly those dealing
with the evolution of life histories. In the present paper, we identify four topics of key …

[ספר][B] Eco-evolutionary dynamics

AP Hendry - 2017‏ - degruyter.com
In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

The rock–paper–scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies

B Sinervo, CM Lively - Nature, 1996‏ - nature.com
MANY species exhibit colour polymorphisms associated with alternative male reproductive
strategies, including territorial males and'sneaker males' that behave and look like females1 …

Egg size and offspring quality: a meta‐analysis in birds

M Krist - Biological reviews, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Ecological morphology of locomotor performance in squamate reptiles

T Garland Jr, JB Losos - Ecological morphology: integrative …, 1994‏ - books.google.com
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 …

The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between micro-and macroevolution

SJ Arnold, ME Pfrender, AG Jones - Genetica, 2001‏ - Springer
An adaptive landscape concept outlined by GG Simpson constitutes the major conceptual
bridge between the fields of micro-and macroevolutionary study. Despite some important …

Inbreeding depression in benign and stressful environments

P Armbruster, DH Reed - Heredity, 2005‏ - nature.com
Understanding the consequences of inbreeding has important implications for a wide variety
of topics in population biology. Although it is often stated in the literature that the deleterious …

Avian egg size: variation within species and inflexibility within individuals

JK Christians - Biological reviews, 2002‏ - cambridge.org
Egg size is a widely-studied trait and yet the causes and consequences of variation in this
trait remain poorly understood. Egg size varies greatly within many avian species, with the …

Adaptation, exaptation, and constraint: a hormonal perspective

ED Ketterson, V Nolan, Jr - the american naturalist, 1999‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
We approach conceptual issues in evolutionary biology from an endocrinological
perspective, noting that single hormones typically act on several target tissues and thereby …