The integration of research from developmental biology and ecology into evolutionary theory
has given rise to a relatively new field, ecological evolutionary developmental biology (Eco …

Explaining the origins of novel traits is central to evolutionary biology. Longstanding theory
suggests that developmental plasticity, the ability of an individual to modify its development …

Eusociality, in which some individuals reduce their own lifetime reproductive potential to
raise the offspring of others, underlies the most advanced forms of social organization and …

Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of
animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive …

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary
ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems …

Although pairwise interactions have always had a key role in ecology and evolutionary
biology, the recent increase in the amount and availability of biological data has placed a …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Polyphenism is the phenomenon where two or more distinct phenotypes are produced by
the same genotype. Examples of polyphenism provide some of the most compelling systems …

Natural populations often experience the weakening or removal of a source of selection that
had been important in the maintenance of one or more traits. Here we refer to these …

Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …