Developmental plasticity, a phenomenon of importance in both evolutionary biology and
human studies of the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), enables …

In the last decades, developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) has emerged as
a central framework for studying early‐life effects, that is, the impact of fetal and early …

Behavioural flexibility allows animals to adjust to changes in their environment. Although the
cognitive processes that explain flexibility have been relatively well studied in psychology …

There are two contrasting explanations of sleep: as a proximate, essential physiological
function or as a behavioral, adaptive state of inactivity and these hypotheses remain widely …

Sexual conflict is the divergence of evolutionary interests between the sexes. A neglected
aspect of sexual conflict theory is that the conflict often occurs within the female's body …

Despite the wide usage of the term information in evolutionary ecology, there is no general
treatise between fitness (ie density‐dependent population growth) and selection of the …

Abstract Information is increasingly being viewed as a resource used by organisms to
increase their fitness. Indeed, it has been formally shown that there is a sensible way to …

Highlights•Many sources of information impact animal foraging decisions.•Studies of
foraging decisions consider a diverse range of species and causal factors.•They combine …

Information is a crucial currency for living organisms as it allows them to adjust their
behaviour to environmental fluctuations. Thus, natural selection should have favoured the …

Many biological, psychological and economic experiments have been designed where an
organism or individual must choose between two options that have the same expected …