Miniaturization, or the evolution of extremely small adult body size, is a widespread
phenomenon in animals. It has important consequences for both organismal biology and …

Studies on domestication are blooming, but the developmental bases for the generation of
domestication traits and breed diversity remain largely unexplored. Some phenotypic …

Metabolism provides a basis for using first principles of physics, chemistry, and biology to
link the biology of individual organisms to the ecology of populations, communities, and …

Written by a world-respected scientist on the subject of the book, this is an advanced text for
students of ecology, population biology and evolution, as well as professional ecologists …

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

Aim My goals here are to (1) assess the generality of the island rule–the graded trend from
gigantism in small species to dwarfism in larger species–for mammals and other terrestrial …

The tendency of mammals to increase or decrease body size with respect to geography or
time depends on the abundance, availability, and size of resources. This dependency …

Quantifying phenotypic evolutionary rates and their variation across phylogenetic trees is a
major issue in evolutionary biology. A number of phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM …

THE cause of extinction of the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach), is
still debated. A major environmental change at the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary …

The evolutionary origin of Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin species previously
known only by skeletal remains from Liang Bua in western Flores, Indonesia, has been …