Mechanical performance of biological structures, such as tendons, byssal threads, muscles, and spider webs, is determined by a complex interplay between material quality (intrinsic material properties
The evolution of behavioral isolation is often the first step towards speciation. While past studies show that behavioral isolation will sometimes evolve as a by-product of divergent ecological sele
Unrelated species often evolve similar phenotypic solutions to the same environmental problem, a phenomenon known as convergent evolution. But, how do these ‘common traits’ arise? We address this ques
Abstract Models of resource defense are usually based on the assumption that individuals fight over the possession of discrete food items. In many territorial species however conflicts occur over acce
