Life history theory in ecology and evolution refers to the timing of key events in an organism's lifetime, as shaped by natural and/or sexual selection.
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Biological life cycle, a period involving all different generations of a species succeeding each other through means of reproduction
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Evolutionary history of life, the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved
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Even though no such organisms exist, biologists use Darwinian Demons in thought experiments to understand different life history strategies among different organisms.
The life history method, previously known as part of the Chicago School and Polish Sociology, had largely fallen into disrepute in sociology until Oscar Lewis popularized the use of life stories in his Children of Sanchez.
Stolz studied as an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, and received his PhD in biology in 1974 from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a doctoral dissertation on variation in the life history and social organization of Nevada pupfish populations.
Naturalist Gene Stratton Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost features E. imperialis prominently in the plot development, and her account of its life history in Moths of the Limberlost (a chronicle of her discovery of lepidoptera in early 20th century rural Indiana) captures not just the science but the charm of the giant silk moths and childhood discovery of nature.
(Pteromalidae), a chalcid endo-parasite of the gout-fly of barley (Chlorops taeniopus Meig.) with some details of the life history of the summer generation.
Margaret Morse Nice (December 6, 1883 – June 26, 1974) was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (1937).
At least two species of Pseudospora have been taken for reproductive stages in the life history of their hostswhence indeed the generic name.
He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and Research Associate at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia where he spent most of 2001 working on the life history of the nurseryfish.
He is also interested in life history and population dynamics of exploited or threatened reptile taxa, especially among Varanidae and Crocodilia.