While it has been recognized for many years that parental condition can influence offspring
performance, recent research on adaptive parental effects has focused primarily on …

Sexually‐selected exaggerated traits tend to be unusually reliable signals of individual
condition, as their expression tends to be more sensitive to nutritional history and …

Within evolutionary psychology, a dominant assumption is that adaptive variation in fast
versus slow life history strategies centrally includes variation in sociosexual orientations …

Body condition may predict individual fitness because those in better condition have more
resources to allocate towards improving their fitness. However, the hypothesis that condition …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Chemosignals and Reproduction”. Many lizards have
diverse glands that produce chemosignals used in intraspecific communication and that can …

The links between fitness, health, sexual signals and mate choice are complex and subject
to ongoing study. In 1999, von Schantz et al. made the valuable suggestion that oxidative …

Attractiveness is a major component of sexual selection that is dependent on sexual
characteristics, such as pheromone production, which often reflect an individual's fitness and …

Brilliant, diverse colour ornaments of birds were one of the crucial cues that led Darwin to
the idea of sexual selection. Although avian colouration plays many functions, including …

Ejaculate proteins are key mediators of post-mating sexual selection and sexual conflict, as
they can influence both male fertilization success and female reproductive physiology …

Among‐individual variation in vital rates, such as mortality and birth rates, exists in nearly all
populations. Recent studies suggest that this individual heterogeneity produces substantial …