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Print Price: $109.50

Format:
Paperback
182 pp.
line figures, tables, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198540717

Publication date:
April 1995

Imprint: OUP UK

Life History Invariants

Some Explorations of Symmetry in Evolutionary Ecology

Eric L. Charnov

Series : Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution

In this book, Eric Charnov uses ideas about symmetry, invariance, and scaling laws to explore aspects of population dynamics and the evolution of male and female life histories. Charnov's work is internationally known and will attract great interest among postgraduate students and researchers in ecology, evolution, behaviour, and many other fields within organismal biology.

Readership : Postgraduate students and researchers in ecology, evolution, animal behaviour.

Reviews

'Charnov's approach is daring, and remarkably successful in producing quantitative predictions that fit the comparative data. It is a first-rate contribution to life-history evolution. The book will undoubtedly play an important role in stimulating thought about where to go next in studies of life-history evolution.'
Brian Charlesworth, University of Chicago, Nature
'Charnov's approach will be stimulating and provocative to those willing to consider his arguments carefully ... well worth the effort.'
Robert E. Ricklefs, Science, Vol. 264 April 1994

Introduction: invariants imply deeper symmetries
1. Sex allocation
2. Alternative life histories, mostly about males
3. Indeterminate growth
4. Determinate growth, mostly about mammals
5. Population dynamics
6. Senescence (ageing)
7. Finis
References
Author index
Subject index

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