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Compared to most other rattlesnakes (including C. ruber), C. mitchellii pyrrhus has a proportionately large head in both length and width dimensions [56], a morphological feature that may have predisposed this taxon, instead of C. ruber, to track the in situ evolution of increasing body size in chuckwallas.

A further ingredient of the evolution of increasing enzyme specificity could have been the advantage gained from metabolic regulation.

Alternatively, direct evolution of increasing plasticity, in the sense of steeper reaction norm slopes, is also possible and may be favoured by enhanced environmental variability predicted under global change (Thompson 1991; Chevin et al. 2013a, b).

Although Lamarck often used the phrase "pouvoir de la vie" to denote this fundamental tendency, his idea was completely materialistic, even mechanistic, as he attributed the trend toward progress to the motion of fluids in the animal body which would carve channels and cavities in soft tissues, and gradually lead to the evolution of increasing organizational complexity.

Evolution of increased competitive ability in invasive nonindigenous plants: a hypothesis.

Erickson, P.A., Glazer, A.M., Cleves, P.A., Smith, A.S. and Miller, C.T. (2014) Two developmentally temporal quantitative trait loci underlie convergent evolution of increased branchial bone length in sticklebacks.

The Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability (EICA) hypothesis suggests that plants from the invasive range should perform better than plants of the same species from the native range.

This cluster-level adaptation can result in the evolution of increased multicellular complexity (Willensdorfer 2009; Bonner 2003).

Recently, evolutionary studies focused on changes in distinct timekeeping mechanisms have appeared, and this review examines two such case studies: the evolution of increased segment number in snakes and the extreme rostral to caudal gradient of developmental maturation in marsupials.

The significant effects of size and size dimorphism in some models may be evidence that natural (as opposed to sexual) selection also plays a role in the evolution of increased canine dimorphism.