… the evolution of mammalian body size has been influenced by a complex interplay among
geography, climate, and history. … The best‐fitting model of body size evolution for an order or …

… evolution of worker diversity because there was no significant association between colony
size … the expression and evolution of great worker diversity or to diversity evolving more easily …

… Figure 12.1 Influence of age at first reproduction on fitness in an insect that must reach a "critical
interval" at the appropriate developmental stage in order to enter diapause before the …

… the evolutionary forces driving propagule size evolution, we … the distribution of propagule
size across the evolutionary tree. … Insect clade names included all insect order names and all …

… has been positively correlated with cognitive performance, behavioural flexibility, sociality
and ecological success in taxa as varied in body size and life history as honeybees, birds, bats …

… insect orders. Furthermore, by using recent genomic and transcriptome data, this review
discusses the few insects … data concerning insects from different orders are discussed and used …

… evolutionary history of insects, because the phylogeny of Acercaria was still unresolved 2,3,4,5
. Compression fossils of stemgroups of the acercarian orders … morphological evolution. …

… that the time period for the evolution of the Dipteran stem lineage might be … insect evolution
and the analytical tools available from molecular phylogenetics to pinpoint the evolutionary or…

… The evolution offlightlessness in so large an array ofinsect orders, families, and species
suggests that there is a cost to possessing the capability of flight whether or not flight ever occurs…

… The orders of insects yield SFDs that tend to be unimodal, and peak at an intermediate body
size for the order (… , speciation and evolutionary divergence are common to most, if not all …