Douglas J. Futuyma

TL;DR: The evolution of "niche breadth" was a more popular topic in the evolutionary ecological literature of the 1960s and 1970s than it has been recently (109, 118, 120, 134, 155, 156) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the species composition of communities utilizing different resource states may be used to develop weighting factors with which each state may be weighted in proportion to its degree of distinctness.

TL;DR: Twenty-four articles by biologists, ecologists, and other scientists represent a year's progress in the field of paleobiogeography, genetics and geographic structure, and time as an ecological resource are addressed.

TL;DR: Weismann and modern biology, John Maynard Smith life history variation in placental mammals - unifying the data with theory, Paul H.Harvey et al comparative methods using phylogenetically independent contrasts, Austin Burt caste and change in social insects, D.M.Gordon inclusive fitnesw in a nutshell, David C.Queller levels of selection and sorting with special reference to the species level, Elisabeth S.Vrba the emergence, maintenance, and transitions of the earliest evolutionary units, Eors Szathmary population genetics at the DNA level -

TL;DR: This synthesis maintains that important drivers of evolution, ones that cannot be reduced to genes, must be woven into the very fabric of evolutionary theory, and believes that the EES will shed new light on how Point Yes, urgently is shed.