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Paradox of Sex
Isa Schön, Koen Martens
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Paradox of SexIntroductionThe evolution of sex can be divided into two major but rather different topics, the origin and the maintenance of sex. The o...
Parental Care, Evolution of
Per T. Smiseth
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Evolution of Parental CareIntroductionParental care involves traits expressed by parents that are directed toward their offspring and that enhance the...
Parthenogenesis
Tanja Schwander
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Parthenogenesis Introduction Parthenogenesis is the development of an unfertilized egg into a new individual. Coined by Carl Theodor Ernst von...
Personality Differences, Evolution of
Denis Réale, Alexander Weiss
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Evolution of Personality Differences Introduction The concept of personality comes from psychology. Although they are various definitions of p...
Phenotypic Plasticity
Nick Levis, David W. Pfennig
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Phenotypic PlasticityIntroductionPhenotypic plasticity (often termed “plasticity”) is generally defined as the capacity of an individual organism to a...
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Tests of Macroevolutionary Questions
Emilia P. Martins, Jesualdo Arturo Fuentes-González
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Tests of Macroevolutionary QuestionsIntroductionThe comparative method has been used throughout biology to genera...
Phylogenetic Trees, Interpretation of
Stacey D. Smith
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Interpretation of Phylogenetic Trees Introduction At first glance, a phylogenetic tree appears to be a relatively simple diagram, beginning at...
Phylogeography
Bryan C. Carstens
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Phylogeography Introduction The discipline of phylogeography is relatively new; it gained momentum when John Avise and colleagues coined the t...
Polyploid Speciation
Doug Soltis, Clayton Visger
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Polyploid SpeciationIntroductionDiploid organisms have two complete sets of chromosomes. Polyploidy, often referred to now as whole genome duplication...
Population Genetics
A. Rus Hoelzel
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Population GeneticsIntroductionThe molecule that determines life, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), can be usefully divided up into segments called “loci” ...
Population Structure
Gilles Guillot, Ludovic Orlando
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Population Structure Introduction The term “population structure” (or “population subdivision”) usually refers to the patterns in neutral gene...
Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection
Patricia L.R. Brennan, Dara N. Orbach
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Post-Copulatory Sexual SelectionIntroductionThe field of post-copulatory sexual selection investigates how female and male adaptations have evolved to...
Psychology, Evolutionary
S. Craig Roberts
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Evolutionary Psychology Introduction Evolutionary psychology aims to document, understand, and interpret human behavior using an evolutionary ...
Punctuated Equilibria
David Sepkoski
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Punctuated Equilibria Introduction In 1972, Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published a paper titled “Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternati...
Quantitative Genetic Variation and Heritability
Eleanor O'Brien, John Hunt, Jason B. Wolf
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Quantitative GeneticsIntroductionQuantitative genetics is the study of the genetic basis underlying phenotypic variation among individuals, with a foc...
Reaction Norms, Evolution of
Rebekah A. Oomen, Jeffrey A. Hutchings
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Evolution of Reaction NormsIntroductionPhenotypic variance is a function of genetic variability, environmental variation, and the ways in which geneti...
Reinforcement
Henry Arenas-Castro, Beth Brittain, Daniel R. Matute, Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
ReinforcementIntroductionReinforcement, or the strengthening of reproductive isolation in response to hybridization costs, is a case in which natural ...
Reproductive Proteins, Evolution of
Alberto Civetta
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Evolution of Reproductive ProteinsIntroductionEvolutionary geneticists have long been interested in the identification of variation at the molecular l...
Selection Gradients
Sandy Kawano
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Selection GradientsIntroductionNatural selection and sexual selection are important evolutionary processes that can shape the phenotypic distributions...
Selection, Directional
Andrew MacColl
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Directional Selection Introduction Directional selection occurs when individuals with traits on one side of the mean in their population survi...
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