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We have looked at the role of births and deaths at different ages in determining the dynamics of a population. The schedule of births, deaths, and emigration/immigration is known as the life history of a species. In addition to looking at the effect of the life history on the dynamics of a population, we can also ask how this life history arose. You are probably already familiar with plants and animals having wildly different life histories — some species are much longer lived and reproduce many more times than others.
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Hastings, A. (1997). Evolution of Life Histories. In: Population Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2731-9_5
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