Although the study of local adaptation has a long history, recent advances come from integration experimental field approaches with population genetics. Given that natural selection and gene flow are two key aspects adaptation, abiotic biotic impacts on reproductive traits expected to have strong influence divergence. Natural factors, enemies, mutualists combine in complex, context-dependent ma...

The use o f tools to obtain food is probably a long-standing hominid adaptation. Therefore, the rapid increase in hominid brain size over the last million years cannot be explained by selection for basic tool use alone. 350o alternative theories, here termed the ecological adaptation hypothesis and the intraspecific competition hypothesis, are reviewed and rejected. Instead, a combination of th...

EDITORIAL article Front. Mar. Sci., 18 August 2023Sec. Marine Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography and Species Diversity Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1273405