A membership society whose goal is to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences.
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Dominik W. Schmid, Matthew D. McGee, Rebecca J. Best, Ole Seehausen, and Blake Matthews (Mar 2019)
Rapid trait evolution in recently diverged predator populations impacts predator performance and prey community structure
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Charlotte de Vries and Hal Caswell (Apr 2019)
Wouldn’t it be nice if population genetics and stage-classified demography got together? Now they have
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Jessica R. K. Forrest, Regan Cross, and Paul J. CaraDonna (Apr 2019)
Faced with short and variable summers, mason bee larvae use temperature & birth date to decide on 1- or 2-year life cycle
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Silas B. Tittes, Joseph F. Walker, Lorena Torres-Martínez, and Nancy C. Emery (Apr 2019)
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Michael T. France and Larry J. Forney (Apr 2019)
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Hanna ten Brink, André M. de Roos, and Ulf Dieckmann (May 2019)
Why is metamorphosis widespread in the animal kingdom, despite a few evolutionary origins? It is an evolutionary trap!
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Pacifica Sommers and Peter Chesson (May 2019)
General rules of how predator avoidance behavior alters coexistence of similar species with shared predators and resources
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Denon Start, Arthur E. Weis, and Benjamin Gilbert (Mar 2019)
The tangled bank: Species interactions ripple across foodwebs to shape natural selection
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Qiaoqiao Huang and Martin Burd (Mar 2019)
This study identifies a novel pathway through which pollen limitation selects for reproductive assurance and mixed mating, and provides an adaptive explanation as to why selfed seeds are often smaller than outcrossed seeds
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Eric Libby and William Ratcliff (Mar 2019)
Selection in a fluctuating environment drives bet-hedging strategies that increase the risk of extinction