Evolutionary developmental biology (evo–devo) explores the mechanistic relationships
between the processes of individual development and phenotypic change during evolution …

Phenotypic plasticity is the primitive character state for most if not all traits. Insofar as
developmental and physiological processes obey the laws of chemistry and physics, they …

During the 130-year history of the scientific study of animal behaviour, there have been two
periods of relatively intense interest in the role of social learning in behavioural …

Intelligence is not a term commonly used when plants are discussed. However, I believe that
this is an omission based not on a true assessment of the ability of plants to compute …

Publisher Summary This chapter updates former reviews on locust polyphenism and also
discusses recent findings. Over 200 articles were published in scientific journals on various …

In recent years, biologists have increasingly been asking whether the ability to evolve—the
evolvability—of biological systems, itself evolves, and whether this phenomenon is the result …

Two very basic ideas in sexual selection are heavily influenced by numbers of potential
mates: the evolution of anisogamy, leading to sex role differentiation, and the frequency …

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity provides a mechanism of developmental rescue in novel and
rapidly changing environments. Understanding the underlying mechanism of plasticity is …

The worldwide leaf economic spectrum (WLES) is a strikingly consistent pattern of
correlations among leaf traits. Although the WLES effectively summarizes variation in plant …

So‐called DNA barcodes have recently been proposed to answer the problem of specimen
identification and to quantify global biodiversity. We show that this proposition is wanting in …