The Evolution of Life Histories

Stearns, S. C. (1992). The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford University Press.

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Book

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Review or monograph

Year

1992

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• Allocation
  • The cleanest non-economic case is organismal energy budgeting: a plant or animal has a finite metabolic intake (supply) that must be apportioned across growth, maintenance, defense, and reproduction (claimants), subject to total energy balance (feasibility), via a developmental or hormonal mapping (assignment), under selection pressure (criterion — fitness rather than fairness or efficiency), a parallel Stearns (1992) makes precise in his synthesis of life-history evolution as the comparative study of criterion-driven energetic allocation across taxa.

    This sourceSynthesis of life-history evolution as the comparative study of criterion-driven energetic allocation (growth vs. reproduction, current vs. future reproduction, offspring number vs. size) across taxa. SUPPORTS the knowledge-transfer claim that Stearns makes organismal energy budgeting precise as criterion-driven allocation.

Domain-specific

• r/K Selection Theory
  • Subsequent work, particularly Stearns's life-history synthesis from the 1970s onward and Reznick and colleagues' experimental work on guppies, substantially revised the two-point typology into a continuous and multi-dimensional life-history space

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