Hypothesis: Natural and sexual selection should be stronger on whole-organism functional
performance traits (sprinting, biting) than on correlated morphological variables. Organisms …

Healthy males are likely to have higher mating success than unhealthy males because of
differential expression of condition-dependent traits such as mate searching intensity …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

1. Classic evolutionary models interpret ageing as a cost of reproduction, but evolutionary
research has thus far largely neglected the conceptual links between the evolution of ageing …

In social species animals should fine-tune the expression of their social behavior to social
environments in order to avoid the costs of engaging in costly social interactions. Therefore …

The elaboration and diversification of sexually selected weapons remain poorly understood.
We argue that progress in this topic has been hindered by a strong bias in sexual selection …

For almost 40 years, studies of whole-organism performance have formed a cornerstone of
evolutionary physiology. Although its utility as a heuristic guide is beyond question, and we …

Natural selection is an important driver of microevolution. Yet, despite significant theoretical
debate, we still have a poor understanding of how selection operates on interacting traits (ie …

Highlights•The expression and outcomes of mating behaviors vary as complex, continuous
functions of temperature.•Thermal mating windows emerge from sex-specific effects on …

Activity budgets influence the expression of life history traits as well as population dynamics.
For ectotherms, a major constraint on activity is environmental temperature. Nonetheless, we …