Sexual selection has long been known to have important evolutionary consequences, the most recognized being the evolution of extravagant secondary sexual characters, sexual displays, and animal ...

Many fisheries exert directional selection on traits such as body size and growth rate. Whether directional selection impacts regions of the genome associated with traits related to growth is unknown.

HUMANS HAVE never been immune from the pressures of natural selection. Throughout the history of the species circumstances have arisen to give individuals with certain beneficial mutations an ...