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 ...

Both the selectionist and neutral theories recognize that natural selection is responsible ... So one may wonder why it is important to study neutral evolutionary processes that, a priori, seem ...

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 ...