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Selection and covariance.
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This is a preliminary communication describing applications to genetical selection of a new mathematical treatment of selection in general.Abstract:
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Quantitative genetics and fitness: lessons from Drosophila
TL;DR: Pattern of heritability and genetic covariance between traits in the genus Drosophila supports the variable pleiotropy hypothesis but other factors such as environmental heterogeneity, or mutation cannot be excluded.
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Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real‐world ecosystem service
TL;DR: This work uses a novel analytical approach, the Price equation, to partition the contribution to ecosystem services made by species richness, composition and abundance in four large-scale data sets on crop pollination by native bees, and finds that abundance fluctuations of dominant species drove ecosystem service delivery.
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Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour
Kevin N. Laland,Gillian R. Brown +1 more
TL;DR: A history of evolution and human behaviours, and three approaches to integrating approaches: gene-culture co-evolution, evolutionary psychology and Memetics.
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Rapid Adaptation to Climate Facilitates Range Expansion of an Invasive Plant
TL;DR: Examination of local adaptation along a climatic gradient in the North American invasive plant Lythrum salicaria shows that the evolution of earlier flowering is adaptive at the northern invasion front, demonstrating that local adaptation can evolve quickly during range expansion, overcoming environmental constraints on propagule production.
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Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence.
Peter J. Richerson,Ryan Baldini,Adrian Bell,Kathryn Demps,Karl Frost,Vicken Hillis,Sarah Mathew,Emily K. Newton,Nicole Naar,Lesley Newson,Cody T. Ross,Paul E. Smaldino,Timothy M. Waring,Matthew R. Zefferman +13 more
TL;DR: This target article sketches the evidence from five domains that bear on the explanatory adequacy of cultural group selection and competing hypotheses to explain human cooperation and presents evidence, including quantitative evidence, that the answer to all of the questions is “yes” and argues that it is not clear that any extant alternative tocultural group selection can be a complete explanation.