Directional and disruptive selection in populations structured by class and continuous ontogeny under incomplete plasticity.

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Many organisms undergo ontogeny, whereby individuals change in state (e.g., in size, morphology, or condition) as they age. Understanding the evolution of traits influencing ontogeny is challenging because their fitness effects unfold across an individual's lifetime and may differ between classes such as sexes. Here, we analyse selection on non-plastic traits (e.g., fixed resource allocation strategies) that...

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