Mass mortality events (MMEs) are rapidly occurring catastrophic demographic events that
punctuate background mortality levels. Individual MMEs are staggering in their observed …

Sexual selection has resulted in some of the most captivating features of insects, including
flashy colors, bizarre structures, and complex pheromones. These features evolve in …

In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter
than the" long lapse of ages" emphasized by Darwin—in fact, evolutionary change is …

Climate change has the potential to affect the ecology and evolution of every species on
Earth. Although the ecological consequences of climate change are increasingly well …

Adaptive evolution in new or changing environments can be difficult to predict because the
functional connections between genotype, phenotype, and fitness are complex. Here, we …

Intrinsic activity in the brain is organized into networks. Although constrained by their
anatomical connections, functional correlations between nodes of these networks …

Impacts of climate change are apparent in natural systems around the world. Many species
are and will continue to struggle to persist in their current location as their preferred …

Existing insight suggests that maternal effects have a substantial impact on evolution, yet
these predictions assume that maternal effects themselves are evolutionarily constant …

Phenotypic plasticity is frequently assumed to be an adaptive mechanism by which
organisms cope with rapid changes in their environment, such as shifts in temperature …

Although there are many examples of contemporary directional selection, evidence for
responses to selection that match predictions are often missing in quantitative genetic …