Adaptation enables natural populations to survive in a changing environment.
Understanding the mechanics of adaptation is therefore crucial for learning about the …

The speed of population adaptation to changing biotic and abiotic environments is
determined by the interaction between genetic drift, positive selection and linkage effects …

Highly fecund natural populations characterized by high early mortality abound, yet our
knowledge about their recruitment dynamics is somewhat rudimentary. This knowledge gap …

By removing individuals with certain heritable characteristics such as large body size,
harvesting may induce rapid evolutionary change in fish life history. There is controversy …

Evolutionary game dynamics describes how successful strategies spread in a population. In
well-mixed populations, the usual assumption, eg underlying the replicator dynamics, is that …

We consider a model of viability selection in a highly fecund haploid population with
sweepstakes reproduction. We use simulations to estimate the time until the allelic type with …

Adaptation from de novo mutation can produce so-called soft selective sweeps, where
adaptive alleles of independent mutational origin sweep through the population at the same …

Searching for population genomic signals left behind by positive selection is a major focus of
evolutionary biology, particularly as sequencing technologies develop and costs decline …

Fisher's runaway process is an explanation for the origin of conspicuous features which
make one sex more attractive to the other. It has been suggested that it could lead to the …

Evolutionary responses to the long-term exploitation of individuals from a population may
include reduced growth rate, age at maturation, body size and productivity. Theoretical …