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The great diversity of life histories seen in the living world needs explaining. Why should some species live for minutes yet be enormously fecund, whereas others like ourselves live for decades and produce very few offspring? Biologists recognize that such variation has evolved because the production of offspring is costly. What is more, there are many detectable trade-offs between components of fecundity, and between fecundity and mortality. For example, high fecundity early in life may be accompanied by increased mortality, thus preventing the production of offspring later in life. As this volume testifies, we are now at an exciting juncture in our search towards understanding the origin of life-history diversity through evolutionary trade-offs. It is becoming increasingly evident through carefully controlled experimental and comparative studies, how reproductive trade-offs vary with lifestyle. This information, allied with the theoretical framework provided by optimality and population genetic models, furthers our understanding of how evolutionary history and genetically strategic decisions have moulded life-history diversity. In addition to understanding diversity we are also beginning to understand, in evolutionary, functional and physiological terms, the processes that have resulted in such commonplace phenomena as senescence and weaning conflict. This volume shows how biology is now a truly integrated field in which ecologists, ethologists, physiologists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists, and comparative anatomists all have their parts to play.

Table of Contents:
Constraints in the evolution of life histories, L.Partridge and R.Sibly; evolution of senescence - late survival sacrificed for reproduction, T.B.L.Kirkwood and M.R.Rose; ecological determinants of life-history evolution, L.D.Mueller; comparing life histories using phylogenies, P.H. Harvey and A.E.Keymer; dimensionless numbers and the assembly rules for life histories, E.L.Charnov and D.Berrigan; an experimental exploration of Waddington's epigenetic landscape, L.W.Buss and N.W.Blackstone; evolution of alternative reproductive strategies - frequency-dependent sexual selection in male bluegill sunfish, M.R.Gross; clutch size, fecundity and parent-offspring conflict, H.C.J.Godfray and G.A.Parker; the architecture of the life cycle in small organisms, G.Bell and V. Koufopanou; allocation of resources to sex functions in flowering plants, D.Charlesworth and M.T.Morgan; the evolution of reproductive strategies - a commentary, J.Maynard Smith.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780854034321
  • Publisher: The Royal Society
  • Publisher Imprint: The Royal Society
  • Height: 300 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0854034323
  • Publisher Date: /06/1991
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Width: 175 mm


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