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CONCEPT The symposium aims to bring together evolutionary ecologists and physiologists working on temperature-driven a) plastic and b) evolutionary changes in 1) growth rates and 2) body sizes of various (invertebrate and vertebrate) ectothermic animals. Responses to temperature is a topic in which the interplay of different evolutionary forces (primarily, selection and constraints) is particularly obvious. Interdisciplinary efforts in this field are therefore likely to contribute substantially to an improved and more integrated understanding of evolutionary processes. Furthermore, clarifying conceptual and terminological problems in this field would serve the needs of both theoretical and applied research on thermal adaptation, and beyond.