Thomas H.G. Ezard

Jan 13, 2025 | cell.com | Anne Romero |Thomas H.G. Ezard |Michael Charles |Rafal M. Gutaker |Colin Osborne |Mark Chapman | +1 more

KeywordsdomesticationevolvabilitycropsplasticityagricultureDomestication and its use as a model for evolutionCrop domestication is a mutualistic relationship between plants and humans. Humans gain a more predictable and improved resource from the plants, usually by taking control over the plants’ reproduction, and in parallel the plants become adapted to the environment of the domesticator [1,2].

Jul 13, 2024 | cell.com | Iain M. Stott |Roberto Salguero-Gómez |Owen Jones |Thomas H.G. Ezard

HighlightsLife history studies support the fast–slow continuum as the dominant but not unique axis structuring life history variation. Other important axes of life history variation associated with development and reproductive tactics exist, and exploration of further axes, clusters, and boundaries of life history variation is needed. Existing life history analyses are venturing far from theory and could benefit from a stronger focus on hypothesis testing rather than exploration.