Use the readings on sexual selection and kin selection to explain why natural selection might lead to these phenomena: Male deer grow very large antlers that they drop and regrow each year. The ...

But there is another, more compelling reason for why life history evolution is important: adaptation by natural selection is based on variation in Darwinian fitness among individuals, and since ...

Although the study of natural ... Exactly why reduced sunlight should be a potent selective force is still debated, but it has become clear that humans have experienced positive selection at ...

Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's theory of evolution in ...