… I have proposed the term "variability selection" (9) to describe the effects of repeated, …
have had an important impact on hominid evolution. Variability selection requires a long sequence …

… We conclude that climatic variability represents an important component of climate that …
the different targets involved in adaptive evolution of phenotypic plasticity to deal with climatic …

… Here we review the current knowledge of large-scale climate variability during the last 1000
years, highlight some problematic issues, and point to where additional research is needed. …

… of the hypothesis that climate variability influenced evolution is provided by examining the
association between the eight prolonged phases of heightened climate variability (Table 1) …

… of variability in shaping evolutionary change. A model of alternating high and low climate
variability … about the environmental drivers of hominin evolution. First and last appearances of …

… variability in our evolving climate. Understanding and acknowledging these variations is
important for society and policymakers. Much of this variability … uncertainty in climate predictions …

… ocean climate system are an area of hot debate and active researchlQ1, and the biological
implications of this newly recognized scale of climatic variability are only now being explored. …

… climate off the Niger Delta has strong implications on the delta coastline changes. However,
other processes (such as fluvial discharge variability due climatic variability … evolution along …

… climate variability into universal regimes on time scales where we observe forced global
climate … The reason is that the variability on the long time scales is fundamentally forced by time-…

… governed by these drivers should vary according to local environmental conditions and
species’ ecologies: in particular we suggest three metrics of climate variability may be important. …