This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

Primates, like other mammals, exhibit an annual reproductive pattern that ranges from strictly
seasonal breeding to giving birth in all months of the year, but factors mediating this …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

The precise quantitative nature of the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA) is
difficult to reconstruct. The EEA represents a multitude of different geographic and temporal …

We show that the diverse ecoregions of Madagascar share one distinctive climatic feature:
unpredictable intra-or interannual precipitation compared with other regions with …

The amylase gene (AMY), which codes for a starch-digesting enzyme in animals, underwent
several gene copy number gains in humans (Perry et al., 2007), dogs (Axelsson et al …

Many services generated by forest ecosystems provide essential support for human well‐
being. However, the vulnerability of these services to environmental change such as forest …

AH Harcourt, a well-known professor of anthropology at the University of California, has
published papers on gorillas since 1978 and KJ Stewart has worked with him since 1987 …

Adaptive explanations for social grouping assume that there are fitness consequences
associated with group size, and individuals maintain membership in groups of favorable size …

Primates, like other mammals, exhibit varying patterns of reproductive seasonality, spanning
the continuum from sharply delineated seasonal periods of mating and births to absolute …