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Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have undergone a radical transformation from the typical terrestrial mammalian body plan to a streamlined ......
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In animal-pollinated plants, the growth environment and pollination environment are two important agents of natural selection. However, their simultan......
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With the twofold cost of sex, derived asexual organisms have an immediate reproductive advantage over their sexual sisters. Yet the twiggy phylogeneti......
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Ecological interactions link species in networks. Loss of species from or introduction of new species into an existing network may have substantial ef......
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When sons and daughters have different fitness costs and benefits, selection may favor deviations from an even offspring sex ratio. Most theories on s......
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In many species, parental age at reproduction can influence offspring performance and life span, but the direction of these effects and the traits aff......
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Determining how and how often asexual lineages emerge within sexual species is central to our understanding of sex-asex transitions and the long-term ......
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Crook published a landmark study on the social organization of weavers (or weaverbirds, family Ploceidae) that contributed to the emergence of sociobi......
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Maternal effects can give newborns a head start in life by adjusting natal phenotypes to natal environments, yet their strength and adaptiveness are o......
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The idea of applying game theory to problems in biology was given a formal basis nearly 50 years ago. Since then, the theory has advanced, and there h......
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Genital morphology reveals rapid diversification among species, and species-specific divergence in genital morphology may result in reproductive isola......
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Resource competition theory predicts coexistence and exclusion patterns based on species' R*s, the minimum resource values required for a species to p......
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Host plant specialization across herbivorous insects varies dramatically, but while the molecular mechanisms of host plant adaptations are increasingl......
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The adaptive potential of nonheritable somatic mutations has received limited attention in traditional evolutionary theory because heritability is a f......
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The process of adaptation toward novel environments is directly connected to the acquisition of higher fitness relative to others. Such increased fitn......
