Evolution of life history variation among female mammals

摘要: Abstract 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 body size, natural selection on age maturity, and stable demography) to predict both powers intercepts scaling allometry history variables adult size. The theory also predicts signs (+, -) correlations between when size held constant. Finally, allows us eliminate dimensionless relationships themselves.