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Theories of Life-History Evolution [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Zoologist, 1983
SYNOPSIS. In order to assess current scientific understanding of life-history evolution, the alternative fundamental theories are formulated in a refutable form and compared with the available empirical evidence. The hypothesis that life-history does not evolve is rejected on the grounds that life-history can be readily modified by artifical selection.
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An improved procedure for generating standardised load-time histories for marine structures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The load sequence effect has been proved from laboratory tests to be an influencing factor that cannot be neglected in the fatigue analysis of marine structures.
Cui, W, Li, S, Paik, JK
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Low Maternal Capital Predicts Life History Trade-Offs in Daughters: Why Adverse Outcomes Cluster in Individuals

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2019
Background: Some individuals appear prone to multiple adverse outcomes, including poor health, school dropout, risky behavior and early reproduction. This clustering remains poorly understood.
Jonathan C. K. Wells   +12 more
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Anthropogenic Harvesting Pressure and Changes in Life History: Insights from a Rocky Intertidal Limpet

open access: yes, 2012
The importance of large breeding individuals for maintaining the health of marine fish and invertebrate populations has long been recognized. Unfortunately, decades of human harvesting that preferentially remove larger individuals have led to drastic ...
Fenberg, Phillip B., Roy, Kaustuv
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Queen control of a key life-history event in a eusocial insect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In eusocial insects, inclusive fitness theory predicts potential queen–worker conflict over the timing of events in colony life history. Whether queens or workers control the timing of these events is poorly understood.
Andrew F. G. Bourke   +5 more
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A Battery of Measures for Psychometric Assessment of Life History Strategy

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics
In recent years, life history theory has significantly strengthened its position in the social sciences, offering explanations for persistent variations in behavior and values, as well as physiological, cognitive, psychological, and social traits of ...
Elizaveta Shamilevna Komyaginskaya   +3 more
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Earlier sexual debut predicts higher (not lower) levels of father care measured across 12 weeks: an experience sampling study

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Across the lifespan, males negotiate the tradeoff between current and future reproduction. From a life history theory (LHT) perspective, resources invested into earlier reproduction pose a cost to later reproduction.
Randy Corpuz   +2 more
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From organism to population: the role of life-history theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
The role of life-history theory in population and evolutionary analyses is outlined. In both cases general life histories can be analysed, but simpler life histories need fewer parameters for their description.
Sibly, R.M.
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The relevance of life history theory to harvest and conservation

open access: yesFauna Norvegica, 1997
“Life history theory” and “applied ecology” are two disciplines that together span much of the field of natural science. The first seeks to understand the basic patterns underlying the diversity of life cycles, whereas the second seeks to guide our ...
Arild Landa
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Life History Orientation Predicts COVID-19 Precautions and Projected Behaviors

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The ongoing Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had a devastating impact worldwide. It is unclear as to what one expects during the “post-peak” and “post-pandemic” periods in terms of: (1) continued adherence to precautionary measures (e.g ...
Randy Corpuz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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