Much research has been devoted to identify the conditions under which selection favours
flexible individuals or genotypes that are able to modify their growth, development and …

Plastic responses figure prominently in discussions on insect adaptation to climate change.
Here we review the different types of plastic responses and whether they contribute much to …

Trade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a
central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined …

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health
justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in …

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has
puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism …

In an era of rapid climate change, there is a pressing need to understand how organisms will
cope with faster and less predictable variation in environmental conditions. Here we develop …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

Phenotypic characteristics of animals can change independently from changes in the
genetic code. These plastic phenotypic responses are important for population persistence …

Behavioural traits are characterized by their labile expression: behavioural responses can,
in principle, be up-and down-regulated in response to moment-to-moment changes in …

The study of phenotypic evolution should be an integrative endeavor that combines different
approaches and crosses disciplinary and phylogenetic boundaries to consider complex …