A recent Bayesian model (Stamps and Krishnan, in press) shows how individual differences in the means and variances of prior distributions of estimates of variables such as danger can generate … These two approaches share a concern with phenotypic plasticity and its evolutionary significance. This developmental plasticity allowed extensive growth that led to development of a dense canopy and imposed light limitation on the other species. The fields of human behavioral ecology (HBE) and evolutionary developmental biology (evo‐devo) both stand to make significant contributions to our understanding of agricultural origins. The use of model systems such as the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has facilitated a dialogue between developmental biologists asking how plasticity is controlled (proximate … The fields of human behavioral ecology (HBE) and evolutionary developmental biology (evo‐devo) both stand to make significant contributions to our understanding of agricultural origins. The relationship between genotype and phenotype is not one to one. a steep reaction norm) indicates phenotypic plasticity, … The ability of organisms to respond to the environmental conditions encountered during ontogeny by phenotypic change (‘developmental plasticity’) is a pervasive feature of life (Schmalhausen 1949; Bradshaw 1965; Schlichting & Pigliucci 1998; West‐Eberhard 2003).It has been demonstrated in virtually all organisms investigated so far, from fungi (Brasier 1987) to … Developmental plasticity has profound implications for plant evolution and ecology and can make important contributions to improving yield stability in agriculture. This statement is central to our understanding of how natural selection shapes phenotypic evolution. Most studies have only tested for developmental plasticity in thermal ecology traits at the hatchling stage, which limits our understanding of the benefits of developmental plasticity to individuals, or the adaptive significance of developmental plasticity in populations. Demographics also vary temporally and spatially within populations, but few studies have examined the possibility that developmental plasticity in response to changes in these … These two approaches share a concern with phenotypic plasticity and its evolutionary significance. (1997) In … Nutrition-responsive development is a ubiquitous and highly diversified example of phenotypic plasticity, yet its underlying molecular and developmental mechanisms and modes of … The plastic response of phenotypic traits to environmental change is a common research focus in several disciplines-from ecology and evolutionary biology to physiology and molecular genetics. Condition-dependence, developmental plasticity, and cognition: implications for ecology and evolution K.L. HBE considers the adaptive plasticity of the human phenotype in response to resource distribution … / Evolutionary and ecological genomics of developmental plasticity : Novel approaches and first insights from the study of horned beetles. Springer New York LLC, 2014. pp. Here, we clarify the links between canalization, plasticity and developmental stability, the three major processes involved in the control of phenotypic variability. Socially cued anticipatory plasticity (SCAP) has been proposed as a widespread mechanism of adaptive life-history shifts in semelparous species with extreme male mating investment. Developmental plasticity frequently involves parental effects, which might enable adaptive and context-dependent transgenerational transmission of phenotypic strategies. 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