As one of the few cellular traits that can be quantified across the tree of life, DNA-replication
fidelity provides an excellent platform for understanding fundamental evolutionary …

The concept of evolvability emerged in the early 1990s and soon became fashionable as a
label for different streams of research in evolutionary biology. In evolutionary quantitative …

Genomic studies are now poised to explore whole communities of species. The~ 70 species
of woody plants that anchor the coastal ecosystems of the tropics, collectively referred to as …

Adaptive radiation is the evolution of diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage. It can
cause a single ancestral species to differentiate into an impressively vast array of species …

The long history of reciprocal transplant studies testing the hypothesis of local adaptation
has shown that populations are often adapted to their local environments. Yet many studies …

Although mutation provides the fuel for phenotypic evolution, it also imposes a substantial
burden on fitness through the production of predominantly deleterious alleles, a matter of …

The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of new mutations is a fundamental entity in genetics
that has implications ranging from the genetic basis of complex disease to the stability of the …

Although the human germline mutation rate is higher than that in any other well-studied
species, the rate is not exceptional once the effective genome size and effective population …

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

Mutation dictates the tempo and mode of evolution, and like all traits, the mutation rate is
subject to evolutionary modification. Here, we report refined estimates of the mutation rate …