Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to
another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the …

Climate change in the past has led to significant changes in species' distributions. However,
how individual species respond to climate change depends largely on their adaptations and …

Temporal genomic data hold great potential for studying evolutionary processes such as
speciation. However, sampling across speciation events would, in many cases, require …

Mammals are metagenomic in that they are composed of not only their own gene
complements but also those of all of their associated microbes. To understand the …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …

There is now considerable evidence that elements of the heritable or familial component of
disease susceptibility are transmitted by nongenomic means, and that environmental …

One of the most important shifts in evolutionary biology in the past 50 years is an increased
recognition of sluggish evolution and failures to adapt, which seem paradoxical in view of …

We lack a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary pattern and process because short-
term and long-term data have rarely been combined into a single analytical framework. Here …

Aim To integrate ecological fitting, the oscillation hypothesis and the taxon pulse hypothesis
into a coherent null model for the evolution of complex host–parasite associations. Location …