How often phenotypic plasticity acts to promote or inhibit adaptive evolution is an ongoing
debate among biologists. Recent work suggests that adaptive phenotypic plasticity promotes …

Plasticity-led evolution occurs when a change in the environment triggers a change in
phenotype via phenotypic plasticity, and this pre-existing plasticity is subsequently refined …

Plasticity in developmental processes gives rise to remarkable environmentally induced
phenotypes. Some of the most striking and well-studied examples of developmental …

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity, the ability of a genotype to develop a phenotype appropriate
to the local environment, allows organisms to cope with environmental variation and has …

Understanding how populations respond to rapid environmental change is critical both for
preserving biodiversity and for human health. An increasing number of studies have shown …

Variation in life‐history traits can have major impacts on the ecological and evolutionary
responses of populations to environmental change. Life‐history variation often results from …

Many behaviours vary in response to the environment (biotic or abiotic) and therefore
represent an interesting form of phenotypic plasticity. Behavioural plasticity, like other plastic …

The brains and minds of our human ancestors remain inaccessible for experimental
exploration. Therefore, we reconstructed human cognitive evolution by projecting …

Research on animal personality explains the coexistence of distinct behavioural phenotypes
within a species and demonstrates limits to individual plasticity. However, the mechanisms …

Developmental mechanisms play an important role in determining the costs, limits, and
evolutionary consequences of phenotypic plasticity. One issue central to these claims is the …