Males and females share most of their genomes and express many of the same traits, yet the
sexes often have markedly different selective optima for these shared traits. This sexually …

The California Floristic Province harbours more endemic plant and animal taxa and more
identifiable subspecies than any other area of comparable size in North America. We present …

A central tenet of life‐history theory is that investment in reproduction compromises survival.
However, the underlying physiological mechanisms that link reproduction to survival are …

A central tenet of life-history theory is that investment in reproduction compromises survival.
We tested for costs of reproduction in wild brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) by eliminating …

Sexual selection theory predicts that paternal quality should drive female investment in progeny.
We tested whether polyandrous female side‐blotched lizards, Uta stansburiana, would …

Natural selection is an important driver of microevolution. Yet, despite significant theoretical
debate, we still have a poor understanding of how selection operates on interacting traits (ie, …

Tropical ectotherms are thought to be especially vulnerable to climate change because they
are adapted to relatively stable temperature regimes, such that even small increases in …

… The editors of this volume (Erik Svensson, ES; Ryan Calsbeek, RC) got our research training
long after the Modern Synthesis was completed, and long after the death of Sewall Wright, …

Field experiments that measure natural selection in response to manipulations of the selective
regime are extremely rare 1 , even in systems where the ecological basis of adaptation …

1. Ideal despotic distribution theory predicts that the quality of habitat controlled by territorial
animals should vary depending on their competitive ability and the availability of resources. 2…