… We will see that people first broke life histories down into independent traits, and considered
those in isolation. Recently, the process of reassembling tactics from sets of independent …

… the evolution of life history traits: (1) life histories are shaped … factors are tradeoffs among
life history traits and lineage-… to understand the evolution of life histories. One is external: …

… In the third section, I review a representative sample of life history data, for two reasons. First…
types of life histories is limited. Thus hope for a general explanation of life history diversity is …

… of life history … of life history variation, bringing together the approaches of quantitative genetic
modeling and optimality analysis. Using this framework, he then discusses how life histories …

… and to predict what types of life histories are to be expected in … to life-history studies because
of the interesting variations they exhibit and because of the ease with which their life-history …

… they seem to give a new perspective to life history studies. They also suggest that … in life
history studies simply because their importance is not generally recognized. The total life history …

… life-history traits may also have stronger evolutionary interactions with physiological traits
than with other life-history … However, many interactions of lifehistory traits with physiological …

… of the human life cycle: 1. the introduction of the comparative methodology of life history into
… research on bone and dental development that reveals a world of life history preserved in …

… If there were no trade-offs, then selection would drive all traits correlated with fitness to limits
imposed by history and design. However, we find that many life-history traits are maintained …

… The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of a particular life-history
phenomenon, iteroparity (Cole, 1954), with respect to the competitive ability of populations in an …