▪ Abstract Evolutionary physiology represents an explicit fusion of two complementary
approaches: evolution and physiology. Stimulated by four major intellectual and …

Schwenk et al.(2009) provided an overview of five major challenges in organismal
biology:(1) understanding the organism's role in organism–environment linkages;(2) utilizing …

New Findings• What is the topic of this review? Have recent experimental findings in
evolutionary biology concerning the transmission of inheritance opened the way to a …

Whole animal physiological performance is highly polygenic and highly plastic, and the
same is generally true for the many subordinate traits that underlie performance capacities …

In this paper, we illustrate how dynamical systems theory can provide a unifying conceptual
framework for evolution of biological regulatory systems. Our argument is that the genotype …

Comparisons among species have been a standard tool in animal physiology to understand
how organisms function and adapt to their surrounding environment. During the last two …

Trade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a
central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined …

389 INTRODUCTION studies cited in Rose et al., 2005). Domestication generally involves
some amount of intentional selective breeding and, once domesticated, organisms may be …

" The merits of this work are many. A rigorous integration of phylogenetic hypotheses into
studies of adaptation, adaptive radiation, and coevolution is absolutely necessary and can …

Evolutionary Ecology simultaneously unifies conceptual and empirical advances in
evolutionary ecology and provides a volume that can be used as either a primary textbook or …