Article
Evolution of life history variation among female mammals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Feb 1991
Charnov E L
Abstract excerpt
A unified approach is developed for the evolutionary structure of mammalian life histories; it blends together three basic components (individual growth or production rate as a function of body size, natural selection on age of maturity, and stable demography) to predict both the powers and the intercepts of the scaling allometry of life history variables to adult size. The theory also predicts the signs (+, -)...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Mammals
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic
- Models, Statistical
- Mortality