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Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation.
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INDIVIDUAL‐LEVEL SELECTION AS A CAUSE OF COPE'S RULE OF PHYLETIC SIZE INCREASE
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It is shown that selection acting on individual organisms generally favors larger body size, which could translate into a macroevolutionary trend toward increased size and thereby explain Cope's rule.
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Evaluating 'Plasticity-First' Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches.
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Kinship and Cannibalism
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This article addresses issues in kinship and cannibalism by reviewing both the theory of how kinship should affect prey choices and the evidence bearing on these predictions and the behavioral mechanisms used by animals to identify kin.
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The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation
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Three distinct ways by which developmental plasticity can promote evolutionary innovation are examined, showing how the process of genetic accommodation provides a feasible and possibly common avenue by which environmentally induced phenotypes can become subject to heritable modification.
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Character Displacement: Ecological And Reproductive Responses To A Common Evolutionary Problem
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Understanding how organisms respond to competitive and reproductive interactions with heterospecifics offers key insights into the evolutionary causes and consequences of species coexistence and diversification.
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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
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It is argued that inclusive fitness theory has been of little value in explained the natural world, and that it has led to negligible progress in explaining the evolution of eusociality, but these arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory and a misrepresentation of the empirical literature.
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Frequency-dependent Batesian mimicry
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This video shows how to avoid look-alikes of venomous snakes when the real thing is around, as well as how to spot them when they are not.
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Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity
TLDR
It is advocated for the view that relaxed selection and variable selection intensities are likely more important constraints to the evolution of plasticity than the costs of Plasticity, and opportunities to offset costs of phenotypes through ontogeny, amelioration of phenotypic costs across environments, and the condition-dependent hypothesis are examined.
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The adaptive significance of an environmentally-cued developmental switch in an anuran tadpole
  • D. Pfennig
  • Biology, Environmental Science
    Oecologia
  • 1 November 1990
TLDR
Using shrimp density to induce morph differentiation enables tadpoles to respond to their environment adaptively as shrimp are most abundant in highly ephemeral ponds, where the faster developing carnivores are favored.
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