Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

The concept of evolvability emerged in the early 1990s and soon became fashionable as a
label for different streams of research in evolutionary biology. In evolutionary quantitative …

We present a novel perspective on life‐history evolution that combines recent theoretical
advances in fluctuating density‐dependent selection with the notion of pace‐of‐life …

Recent syntheses on the evolutionary causes of dispersal have focused on dispersal as a
direct adaptation, but many traits that influence dispersal have other functions, raising the …

Meta‐analysis is increasingly used to synthesize major patterns in the large literatures within
ecology and evolution. Meta‐analytic methods that do not account for the process of …

The aesthetic preferences of potential mates have driven the evolution of a baffling diversity
of elaborate ornaments. Which fitness benefit—if any—choosers gain from expressing such …

General intelligence has been a topic of high interest for over a century. Traditionally,
research on general intelligence was based on principal component analyses and other …

Linear mixed‐effects models are frequently used for estimating quantitative genetic
parameters, including the heritability, as well as the repeatability, of traits. Heritability acts as …

A consequence of the assumptions of the infinitesimal model, one of the most important
theoretical foundations of quantitative genetics, is that phenotypic traits are predicted to be …

Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the
world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights …