Humans have dramatic, diverse and far-reaching influences on the evolution of other
organisms. Numerous examples of this human-induced contemporary evolution have been …

The evolution of modern humans was a complex process, involving major changes in levels
of diversity through time. The fossils and stone tools that record the spatial distribution of our …

Evolutionary ecologists and population biologists have recently considered that ecological
and evolutionary changes are intimately linked and can occur on the same time-scale …

Invasive and endangered species reflect opposite ends of a spectrum of ecological success,
yet they experience many similar eco-evolutionary challenges including demographic …

The idea that behaviour has played an important role in evolution has had its ups and
downs over the past two centuries. Now it appears to be up once again. Lamarck can claim …

Humans have dramatically altered the planet over the course of a century, from the acidity of
our oceans to the fragmentation of our landscapes and the temperature of our climate …

1. Natural and human mediated perturbations present challenges to the fate of populations
but fuel contemporary evolution (evolution over humanly observable time-scales). Here we …

Due to our intensive subsistence and habitat-modification strategies—including broad-
spectrum harvesting and predation, widespread landscape burning, settlement construction …

There is concern that the rate of environmental change is now exceeding the capacity of
many populations to adapt. Mitigation of biodiversity loss requires science that integrates …

Human beings persist in an extraordinary range of ecological settings, in the process
exhibiting enormous behavioural diversity, both within and between populations. People …