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The History of Life

Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, 1996
Abstract The notion that life may have a history dates back only little more than two centuries. Before that, living species were viewed as given once and for all. Life had no more history than the universe. Only we, humans, had a history.
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American Life Histories

SSRN Electronic Journal
What does it take to live a meaningful life? We exploit a unique corpus of over 1,400 life narratives of older Americans collected by a team of writers during the 1930s. We combine detailed human readings with large language models (LLMs) to extract systematic information on critical junctures, sources of meaning, and overall life satisfaction.
Lagakos, David   +2 more
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A Life History of Place: A Future Place for Life Histories?

Qualitative Inquiry, 2018
Diverse in nature, style, and approach, life histories enjoy a rich and established position within the broader narrative and qualitative research traditions. Nevertheless, such a position may be rendered considerably more complicated given new technologies and post-humanist developments.
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Human life history

2008
Human life-history patterns are characterized by slow maturation, long parental dependency, longevity, and low number of offspring. These developmental peculiarities determine the amount of parental investment in offspring and mating effort, and assign an adaptive role to postmenopausal women.
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On Life History

2017
This chapter turns from ethnography to contemporary history, focusing on ‘life history’ as another example of blurring genres. The British tradition of political life history has six conventions: ‘tombstone’ biography; separation of public and private lives; life without theory; objective evidence and facts; character; and storytelling.
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Life History Traits

2007
Convey, P.   +3 more
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Hominin life history: reconstruction and evolution

Journal of Anatomy, 2008
Bernard A. Wood, Shannen L Robson
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Life Histories and Life History Tradeoffs

Som B. Ale   +2 more
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