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Life History Theory and economic modernity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019Abstract Baumard's new explanation of the Industrial Revolution shows that Life History Theory holds great potential. Here, I suggest two related hypotheses for examination. One is that there are long-term roots of slow life traits and preferences.
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A life-history theory perspective on obesity
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017AbstractWe extend Nettle et al.’s insurance hypothesis (IH) argument, drawing upon life-history theory (LHT), a developmental evolutionary perspective that documents downstream consequences of early-life exposure to unpredictable environments.
Andrea G, Dittmann, Jon K, Maner
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Contributions of genomics to life-history theory
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007Life-history theory seeks to understand the factors that produce variation in life histories that are found both among and within species. At the organismal level there is a well developed mathematical framework, and an important focus of the current research is determining the biological underpinnings of this framework, with particular attention to ...
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Integrating life-history theory and metabolic theory
2019Life-history theory and metabolic theory offer powerful tools for understanding processes driving phenotypic variance, yet traditionally these fields have done so independently of the other. This thesis provides some of the first steps towards integrating two fundamental fields in ecology: life-history theory and metabolic theory.
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Life History Theory and the Industrial Revolution
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019Abstract The most general theory of life history evolution, that of r versus K selection, implies that innovation in the form of plasticity is more likely to be adaptive under poor rather than good resource conditions, the opposite of how Baumard has it.
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Life History Theory Applied to Plants
2023Abstract Life history theory assumes that natural selection optimizes fitness and that trade-offs among fitness components constrain the possible combinations of life history traits. Types II and III survivorship curves are the most common curves in plants, indicating that rates of survival and reproduction do not inevitably decline with
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The evolution of fitness in life‐history theory
Biological Reviews, 2000ABSTRACTTheory concerning the evolution of life history (the schedule of reproduction and survival) focuses on describing the life history which maximises fitness. Although there is an intuitive link between life history and fitness, there are in fact several measures of the ‘black box’ concept of fitness.
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Life history theory and evolutionary anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 1993AbstractLife‐history theory has been developed in biology to explain the variation in timing of fertility, growth, developmental rates, and death of living organisms, as well as events directly tied to these parameters. The theory is useful in explaining variations in age‐specific human fertility and mortality patterns, as well as understanding how the
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Juvenility in the context of life history theory
Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology, 2008Homo sapiens is unique in having four prolonged and pronounced postnatal pre-adult life history stages: infancy, which lasts for 30-36 months and ends with weaning from breast feeding in traditional societies; childhood, which lasts for an additional 2-4 years and concludes in a degree of independence as regards protection and food provision; a ...
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Life history theory and female readers ofpornography
Personality and Individual Differences, 1999Abstract This study explores the possibility that female interest in pornography might signal amore male-like reproductive strategy. According to life history theory, early attachmentexperiences have the effect of setting reproductive strategies as restrictive or unrestrictive.
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