Reproductive success is strongly related to the display of extravagant sexual traits, such as the striking coloration of some bird species.

Ecological stressors such as predation can shape ecosystems, driving prey population and community dynamics through indirect, non-consumptive effects that may cascade across generations through parental effects.

Biphasic life cycles with alternating diploid and haploid gametic phases are a traits shared by all sexually reproducing eukaryotes.

Scott Edwards is an acclaimed evolutionary biologist specialising in molecular evolution in birds. 

While we know many things about E. coli under laboratory conditions, relatively little is known about the ecology of this bacterium in the environment.

Each cell division comes with the risk of mutations that could eventually lead to cancer. How do organisms attain their mature sizes without succumbing to cancer? What happens when large-bodied lineages shrink in size? Can cancer risk constrain body size evolution?