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 …

Parental effects play a vital role in shaping offspring phenotype. In birds, incubation
behaviour is a critical parental effect because it influences the early developmental …

The conditions under which individuals are reared vary and sensitivity of offspring to such
variation is often sex-dependent. Parental age is one important natal condition with …

Evolutionary biology is paying increasing attention to the mechanisms that enable
phenotypic plasticity, evolvability, and extra‐genetic inheritance. Yet, there is a concern that …

Family life forms an integral part of the life history of species across the animal kingdom and
plays a crucial role in the evolution of animal sociality. Our current understanding of family …

Under climate change, marine organisms will need to tolerate or adapt to increasing
temperatures to persist. The ability of populations to cope with thermal stress may be …

Transgenerational environmental effects can trigger strong phenotypic variation. However, it
is unclear how cues from different preceding generations interact. Also, little is known about …

Maternal effects are currently acknowledged as important causes of transgenerational
phenotypic variation and a potential mechanism to adapt offspring to predicted …

Transgenerational plasticity in plants enables rapid adaptation to environmental changes,
allowing organisms and their offspring to adapt to the environment without altering their …

What kind mechanisms one deems central for the evolutionary process deeply influences
one's understanding of the nature of organisms, including cognition. Reversely, adopting a …