There are many different types of organisms in the world: they differ in size, physiology, appearance, and life history. The challenge for evolutionary biology

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

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

This volume is the result of a symposium entitled "Variation in Life Histories: Genetics and Evolutionary Processes" sponsored by the Program in Evolutionary Ec