Environmental sex determination has been documented in a variety of organisms for many
decades and the adaptive significance of this unusual sex‐determining mechanism has …

Phenotypic plasticity—the ability of an individual organism to change its phenotype in direct
response to variation in its environment—has long fascinated and perplexed biologists …

Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology? Sex,
Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate the genetic, developmental, and …

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

The adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) in reptiles
remains unknown decades after TSD was first identified in this group. Concurrently, there is …

Temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) is the predominant form of environmental
sex determination (ESD) in reptiles, but the adaptive significance of TSD in this group …

Why is the sex of many reptiles determined by the temperatures that these animals
experience during embryogenesis, rather than by their genes? The Charnov‐Bull model …

Эволюционное учение объединяет различные разделы биологического знания и
поэтому играет ключевую роль в биологии. Общепризнанным пред ставлением о …

Organisms become adapted to their environment by evolving through natural selection, a
process that generally transpires over many generations. Currently, anthropogenically …

In some gonochoristic species, sex is influenced not only by genotype at conception but also
by the environment that offspring experience during early ontogeny (termed environmental …