Evolutionary theory has been extended almost continually since the evolutionary synthesis
(ES), but except for the much greater importance afforded genetic drift, the principal tenets of …

The capacity of organisms to respond in their own lifetimes to new challenges in their
environments probably appeared early in biological evolution. At present few studies have …

Ecological development or 'eco-devo'examines the mechanisms of developmental
regulation in real-world environments, providing an integrated approach for investigating …

A growing number of biologists have begun asking whether environmentally induced
phenotypic change––'phenotypic plasticity'––precedes and facilitates the origin and …

Organisms are faced with variable environments and one of the most common solutions to
cope with such variability is phenotypic plasticity, a modification of the phenotype to the …

Phenotypic plasticity is not universally adaptive. In certain cases, plasticity can result in
phenotypic shifts that reduce fitness relative to the un-induced state. A common cause of …

Evolutionary biology is paying increasing attention to the mechanisms that enable
phenotypic plasticity, evolvability, and extra‐genetic inheritance. Yet, there is a concern that …

How populations and species respond to modified environmental conditions is critical to
their persistence both now and into the future, particularly given the increasing pace of …

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary
ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems …

The study of phenotypic plasticity has progressed significantly over the past few decades.
We have moved from variation for plasticity being considered as a nuisance in evolutionary …