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 …

The rate of evolution of population mean fitness informs how selection acting in
contemporary populations can counteract environmental change and genetic degradation …

Individual animals frequently exhibit repeatable differences from other members of their
population, differences now commonly referred to as 'animal personality'. Personality …

Although mothers influence the traits of their offspring in many ways beyond the
transmission of genes, it remains unclear how important such 'maternal effects' are to …

Both plasticity and genetic differentiation can contribute to phenotypic differences between
populations. Using data on non‐fitness traits from reciprocal transplant studies, we show that …

The rate of adaptive evolution, the contribution of selection to genetic changes that increase
mean fitness, is determined by the additive genetic variance in individual relative fitness. To …

Meta‐analysis is increasingly used to synthesize major patterns in the large literatures within
ecology and evolution. Meta‐analytic methods that do not account for the process of …

As an extension of the classic life history theory, the recently highlighted pace-of-life
syndrome hypothesis predicts the coevolution of behavioral, physiological and life-history …

Climate change is forecasted to generate a range of evolutionary changes and plastic
responses. One important aspect of avian responses to climate change is how weather …

Telomeres are protective caps at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes that shorten with age
and in response to stressful or resource‐demanding conditions. Their length predicts …