Urbanization is one of the most significant contributors to the Anthropocene, and urban
evolutionary ecology has become an important field of research. While it is commonly …

Harvest of fish and wildlife, both commercial and recreational, is a selective force that can
induce evolutionary changes to life history and behavior. Naturally selective forces may …

Bayesian learning theory and evolutionary theory both formalize adaptive competition
dynamics in possibly high‐dimensional, varying, and noisy environments. What do they …

Plants exhibit a wide array of floral forms and pollinators can act as agent of selection on
floral traits. Two trends have emerged from recent reviews of pollinator-mediated selection in …

The consequences of natural selection can be understood from a purely statistical
perspective. In contrast, an explicitly causal approach is required to understand why trait …

Sexual traits may be selected during multiple consecutive episodes of selection, occurring
before, during, or after copulation. The overall strength and form of selection acting on traits …

Natural selection operates via fitness components like mating success, fecundity, and
longevity, which can be understood as intermediaries in the causal process linking traits to …

Spatial and temporal variation in environmental factors and the social setting can help to
maintain genetic variation in sexually selected traits if it affects the strength of directional …

Gene transcription variation is known to contribute to disease susceptibility and adaptation,
but we currently know very little about how contemporary natural selection shapes transcript …

Males and females take part in extra-pair copulations in most socially monogamous bird
species. The mechanisms leading to the frequent occurrence of extra-pair offspring in …