Although there are many examples of contemporary directional selection, evidence for
responses to selection that match predictions are often missing in quantitative genetic …

There are now thousands of estimates of phenotypic selection in natural populations,
resulting in multiple synthetic reviews of these data. Here we consider several major lessons …

Studies of phenotypic selection document directional selection in many natural populations.
What factors reduce total directional selection and the cumulative evolutionary responses to …

Selection is a central process in nature. Although our understanding of the strength and form
of selection has increased, a general understanding of the temporal dynamics of selection in …

Local adaptation, adaptive population divergence and speciation are often expected to
result from populations evolving in response to spatial variation in selection. Yet, we lack a …

The selection coefficient, s, quantifies the strength of selection acting on a genetic variant.
Despite this parameter's central importance to population genetic models, until recently we …

Abstract In 1983, Russell Lande and Stevan Arnold published “The measurement of
selection on correlated characters,” which became a highly influential citation classic in …

Directional selection is a major force driving adaptation and evolutionary change. However,
the distribution, strength, and tempo of phenotypic selection acting on quantitative traits in …

We critically review the main approaches for standardizing and comparing selection
differentials and gradients among traits, populations, and species and assess their …

Recent advances in the quantitative genetics of traits in wild animal populations have
created new interest in whether natural selection, and genetic response to it, can be …