Target Reviews

 The January 2007 issue (20:1) of Journal of Evolutionary Biology featured the Target Review paper: "A tale of two matrices: multivariate approaches in evolutionary biology" by M.W. Blows. This target review was accompanied by 11 commentaries and all of these articles have been made free online.

Previous target reviews

 September 2006 issue (19:5): "The evolution of cooperation and altruism - a general framework and a classification of models" by L Lehmann and L Keller, accompanied by 16 commentaries. These articles are available free online.

 September 2005 issue (18:5): "20 Questions on Adaptive Dynamics" by D Waxman and S Gavrilets, accompanied by 15 commentaries. These articles are available free online.

 November 2004 issue (17:6): "Costs and benefits of genetic heterogeneity within organisms" by M Pineda-Krch, K Lehtilä, accompanied by 7 commentaries. These articles are available free online.

 November 2001 issue (14:6): "The genic view of the process of speciation" by Chung-I Wu, accompanied by 10 commentaries. These articles are available free online.

 November 1999 issue (12:6): "A pluralist approach to sex and recombination" by West et al., accompanied by 14 commentaries. These articles are available free online.

 January 1997 issue (10:1): "A meta-analysis of the heritability of developmental stability" by Møller and Thornhil, accompanied by 7 commentaries. These articles are available free online.

Reviews

August 2009 issue

•  The common patterns of nature S. A. Frank

July 2009 issue

•  The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis R. P. Freckleton

February 2009 issue

•  Natural selection maximizes Fisher information S. A. Frank
•  Virulence evolution and the trade-off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future S. Alizon, A. Hurford, N. Mideo, M. Van Baalen

January 2009 issue

•  What do human economies, large islands and forest fragments reveal about the factors limiting ecosystem evolution? E.G. Leigh, JR, G.J. Vermeij, M. Wikelski
•  Male–male competition, female mate choice and their interaction: determining total sexual selection J. Hunt, C.J. Breuker, J.A. Sadowski, A.J. Moore

November 2008 issue

•  What, if anything, is sympatric speciation? B. M. Fitzpatrick, J. A. Fordyce & S. Gavrilets
•  Modifying effects of phenotypic plasticity on interactions among natural selection, adaptation and gene flow E. Crispo

July 2008 issue

•  Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios Hanna Kokko & Michael D. Jennions
•  Bayesian approaches in evolutionary quantitative genetics R. B. O’Hara, J. M. Cano, O. Ovasjainen, C. Teplitsky & J. S. Alho

May 2008 issue

•  Why h² does not always equal V_A/V_P? A. J. Wilson

March 2008 issue

•  Defining biological communication T. C. Scott-Phillips
•  Mechanisms of pathogenesis and the evolution of parasite virulence S. A. Frank, P. Schmid-Hempel
•  Distinguishing four fundamental approaches to the evolution of helping R. Bshary & R. Bergmüller

January 2008 issue

•  Comparative studies of quantitative trait and neutral marker divergence: a meta-analysis T. Leinonen, R. B. O’Hara, J. M. Cano & J. Merilä

November 2007 issue

•  Neutral theory: a historical perspective E. G. Leigh Jr

September 2007 issue

•  Evolutionary biology of starvation resistance: what we have learned from Drosophila S. Rion & T. J. Kawecki

July 2007 issue

•  The formal Darwinism project: a mid-term report A. Grafen

May 2007 issue

•  The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations D. H. Nussey, A. J. Wilson & J. E. Brommer

March 2007 issue

•  Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection, S. A. West, A. S. Griffin & A. Gardner.
•  The evolution of trade-offs: where are we? D. A. Roff & D. J. Fairbairn
•   Character displacement: in situ evolution of novel phenotypes or sorting of pre-existing variation? A. M. Rice &smp; D. W. Pfennig

November 2006 issue

•  Fluctuating asymmetry and developmental instability in evolutionary biology: past, present and future, S. V. Dongen.
•  Genetic, physiologic and ecogeographic factors contributing to variation in Homo sapiens: Homo floresiensis reconsidered, Gary D. Richards
•  RNA world – the dark matter of evolutionary genomics P. Michalak
•   Exploring the evolution of environmental sex determination, especially in reptiles F. J. Janzen & P. C. Phillips

July 2006 issue

•  Imbalanced genomic imprinting in brain development: an evolutionary basis for the aetiology of autism C. Badcock & B. Crespi

May 2006 issue

•  Sexually antagonistic coevolution in insects is associated with only limited morphological diversity W. Eberhard

March 2006 issue

•  Implications of the difference between true and predicted breeding values for the study of natural selection and micro-evolution E. Postma

January 2005 issue

•  Pollen and sperm heteromorphism: convergence across kingdoms?, I. Till-Bottraud, D. Joly, D. Lachaise & R. R. Snook

November 2004 issue

•  Spite and the scale of competition, A. Gardner & S. A. West

January 2004 issue

•  The burgeoning field of statistical phylogeography, L. L. Knowles

September 2003 issue

•  Sequential radiation of unrelated organisms: the gall fly Eurosta solidaginis and the tumbling flower beetle Mordellistena convicta, W. G. Abrahamson, C. P. Blair, M. D. Eubanks & S. A. Morehead

May 2003 issue

•  MHC studies in nonmodel vertebrates: what have we learned about natural selection in 15 years?, L. Bernatchez & C. Landry

March 2003 issue

•  Species concepts and species reality: salvaging a Linnaean rank, M. S. Y. Lee

January 2003 issue

•  Female choice of sexually antagonistic male adaptations: a critical review of some current research, C. Cordero & W. G. Eberhard

Short Communications

January 2008 issue

•  Social semantics: toward a genuine pluralism in the study of social behaviour D. S. Wilson
•  Social semantics: how useful has group selection been? S. A. West, A. S. Griffin & A. Gardner