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The Evolution of Life Histories
Prologue Part I: Evolutionary explanation Demography: age and stage structure Quantitative genetics and reaction norms Trade-offs Lineage-specific effects Part II: Age and size at maturity Number and…
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Trade-offs in life-history evolution
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This discussion finds that the genetic structure of a population, in particular the genetic variance-covariance matrix for a set of important life-history traits, reflects the very recent past, describes the present and predicts the near-term future.
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Life-History Tactics: A Review of the Ideas
  • S. Stearns
  • Biology
    The Quarterly Review of Biology
  • 1 March 1976
TLDR
This review organizes ideas on the evolution of life histories into more comprehensive theory that makes more readily falsifiable predictions, and examination of different definitions of fitness.
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THE EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS: PREDICTIONS OF REACTION NORMS FOR AGE AND SIZE AT MATURITY
  • S. Stearns, J. Koella
  • Environmental Science
    Evolution; international journal of organic…
  • 1 September 1986
TLDR
Life‐history theory is used to predict reaction norms for age and size at maturation and makes possible a clear distinction between the genetic and phenotypic components of variation.
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Genome-Wide Transcript Profiles in Aging and Calorically Restricted Drosophila melanogaster
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The Evolutionary Significance of Phenotypic PlasticityPhenotypic sources of variation among organisms can be described by developmental switches and reaction norms
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A knowledge of the mechanisms and developmental patterns underlying phenotypic variation is crucial to the understanding of important evolutionary phenomena, and some biologists are predicting an increasing focus on this variation leading to a Renaissance of the Phenotype.
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Life history evolution: successes, limitations, and prospects
  • S. Stearns
  • Biology
    Naturwissenschaften
  • 1 November 2000
TLDR
Non-equilibrium approaches involving frequency-dependence, density-Dependence, evolutionary game theory, adaptive dynamics, and explicit population dynamics have supplanted optimization as the preferred approach and may soon extend the impact of life history theory into population dynamics and interspecific interactions in coevolving communities.
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Experimental evolution of aging, growth, and reproduction in fruitflies.
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These results confirm the key role of extrinsic mortality rates in the evolution of growth, maturation, reproduction, and aging, and they do so with a selection regime that maintained selection on fertility throughout life while holding population densities constant.
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The Evolution of Life History Traits: A Critique of the Theory and a Review of the Data
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Two models which give alternative explanations for the adaptation of life history traits to stable and fluctuating environments are reviewed and tried to understand what life history data could mean in general, given the present state of knowledge.
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Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population bottleneck
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It is reported that song sparrows that survived a severe population bottleneck were a non-random subset of the pre-crash population with respect to inbreeding, and that natural selection favoured outbred individuals, suggesting that inbreeding depression was expressed in the face of an environmental challenge.
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