Evolutionary physiology
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Evolutionary physiology is the study of physiological evolution, which is to say, the manner in which the functional characteristics of individuals in a population of organisms have responded to selection across multiple generations during the history of the population.
It is a subdiscipline of both physiology and evolutionary biology. Practitioners in this field come from a variety of backgrounds, including physiology, evolutionary biology, ecology and genetics.
Accordingly, the range of phenotypes studied by evolutionary physiologists is broad, including but not limited to life history, behavior, whole-organism performance, functional morphology, biomechanics, anatomy, classical physiology, endocrinology, biochemistry, and molecular evolution. It is closely related to comparative physiology and environmental physiology, and its findings are a major concern of evolutionary medicine.
See also
- Allometry
- Allometric law
- Beneficial acclimation hypothesis
- Comparative physiology
- Darwinian medicine
- Field metabolic rate
- Ecophysiology
- Evolutionary neuroscience
- Evolutionary psychology
- Experimental evolution
- Human physiology
- I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
- Kleiber's law
- Krogh Principle
- John Speakman
- Life history theory
- Metabolic theory of ecology
- Peter Hochachka
- Phenotypic plasticity
- Phylogenetic comparative methods
- Physiology
- Raymond B. Huey
- Theodore Garland, Jr.
- Thrifty phenotype
