Dept of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1995 Apr;10(4):151-3. doi: 10.1016/s0169-5347(00)89025-4.
Over the past two decades, evolutionary and behavioural ecologists have become increasingly interested in the adaptive consequences of intraspecific variability in life history and behavioural strategies. Recently, behavioural endocrinologists have begun to uncover surprising relationships between levels of prenatal exposure to gonadal hormones and variation in reproductive behaviour in adulthood. Such relationships may provide a causal explanation for many variations in adult phenotype that are of insterest to behavioural and evolutionary ecologists.
在过去的二十年中，进化生物学家和行为生态学家越来越关注种内生命史和行为策略的可变性的适应后果。最近，行为内分泌学家开始揭示产前暴露于性腺激素水平与成年后生殖行为变化之间的惊人关系。这种关系可能为行为和进化生态学家感兴趣的许多成年表型变化提供一个因果解释。
