Charles Darwin's travels on HMS Beagle taught him that islands are an important source of
evidence for evolution. Because many islands are young and have relatively few species, …

Convergent evolution of similar phenotypic features in similar environmental contexts has
long been taken as evidence of adaptation. Nonetheless, recent conceptual and empirical …

Biologists have long been fascinated by the exceptionally high diversity displayed by some
evolutionary groups. Adaptive radiation in such clades is not only spectacular, but is also an …

… Jonathan Losos chronicles the details and historical underpinnings of an extraordinary natural
… Losos has synthesized anole biology in lively prose, based on his own extensive studies …

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic
relatedness and ecological similarity among species - Losos - 2008 - Ecology Letters - …

A genetic paradox 1 , 2 exists in invasion biology: how do introduced populations, whose
genetic variation has probably been depleted by population bottlenecks, persist and adapt to …

The vagaries of history lead to the prediction that repeated instances of evolutionary
diversification will lead to disparate outcomes even if starting conditions are similar. We tested this …

George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated as
adaptive radiations—more or less simultaneous divergences of numerous lines from a single …

… In a phylogenetic analysis of fifteen Caribbean Anolis species, Losos (1990b) has shown
that sprint speed and snout-vent length evolved together. By contrast, van Berkum (1986) …

The evolution of the amniotic egg was one of the great evolutionary innovations in the history
of life, freeing vertebrates from an obligatory connection to water and thus permitting the …