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  • Evolutionary biology
  • Developmental biology
  • Ecology

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  • Organisms respond to environmental shifts through coordinated trait changes, forming "syndromes."
  • The "pace-of-life syndrome" (POLS) describes correlated life-history, behavioral, and physiological traits in animals.
  • Gene-centric evolutionary theory struggles to explain POLS, as it overlooks how developmental processes influence trait evolution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose new hypotheses for pace-of-life syndromes (POLS) by adopting a development-centric evolutionary perspective.
  • To resolve the conflict between current POLS predictions and observed species/population resilience to environmental change.

Main Methods:

  • Applying a development-centric perspective to evolutionary theory.
  • Deriving novel hypotheses for the existence and function of pace-of-life syndromes.

Main Results:

  • Developmental processes can bias evolutionary trajectories, leading to phenotypes that do not solely depend on genotype-by-environment interactions.
  • This bias provides a framework for understanding the origins and persistence of POLS.

Conclusions:

  • A development-centric view is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary syndromes like POLS.
  • This approach offers improved predictions for species' resilience in the face of environmental change.