Sexual Selection, Social Competition, and Speciation
- M. West-Eberhard
- BiologyThe Quarterly review of biology
- 1 June 1983
Patterns of variation in socially selected characters demonstrate the wisdom of Darwin's distinction between natural and sexual selection, and the applicability of sexual selection theory to social competition in general.
Phenotypic Plasticity and the Origins of Diversity
- M. West-Eberhard
- Biology
- 1989
Much recent progress has been made toward integrating developmental and evolutionary biology, especially in vertebrate morphology, developmental genetics, and molecular biology, though an unfortunate one because it seems to imply that the main effect of developmental constraints is that of "Developmental constraints".
Developmental plasticity and the origin of species differences
- M. West-Eberhard
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 25 April 2005
It is argued that the origin of species differences, and of novel phenotypes in general, involves the reorganization of ancestral phenotypes (developmental recombination) followed by the genetic accommodation of change.
Catalog of hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
- M. West-Eberhard
- BiologyInsectes Sociaux
- 1 June 1981
Natural history and evolution of paper-wasps
- S. Turillazzi, M. West-Eberhard
- Biology
- 1996
The evolution of eusociality, including a review of the social status of Ropalidia marignata, and behavioural screening and the evolution of polygyny in paper wasps.
Phenotypic accommodation: adaptive innovation due to developmental plasticity.
- M. West-Eberhard
- BiologyJournal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular…
- 15 November 2005
Phenotypic accommodation is adaptive adjustment, without genetic change, of variable aspects of the phenotype following a novel input during development, which is the first step in a process of Darwinian adaptive evolution, or evolution by natural selection.
Temporary Queens in Metapolybia Wasps: Nonreproductive Helpers Without Altruism?
- M. West-Eberhard
- BiologyScience
- 28 April 1978
In Metapolybia aztecoides some mated females produce only workers, losing in competition with other similar egg-layers before producing either males or queens, a by-product of mutualism rather than of kin selection or parental manipulation.
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
- P. Abbot, J. Abe, Andrew G. Zink
- Biology, PhilosophyNature
- 24 March 2011
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.
Sexual selection, social competition and evolution
- M. West-Eberhard
- Biology
- 1979
The drama of what G. E. Hutchinson (1965) referred to as the "evolutionary play" is heightened-or at least more obvious-among members of the same social group because of close physical proximity.
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