Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of

Evolution is the single unifying principle of biology and core to everything in the life sciences. More than a century of work by scientists from across the bio

Life histories can be defined as the means by which individuals (or more precisely genotypes) vary their age- or stage-specific expenditures of reproductive eff

Three of the four major mechanisms of evolution, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow are examined. There are 5 tenets of natural selection that infl

Life History Evolution represents a synthetic approach to the understanding of the evolution of life history variation using the three types of environment (con