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Three Approaches to Trade-Offs in Life-History Evolution

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Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution

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The problem of trade-offs between characters is in some way relevant to almost every topic in evolutionary biology. Although we wish to address some of the fundamental issues relating to this problem, evidently we cannot discuss all such points of relevance. We will take the natural way out and concentrate on the kind of questions that we work on in our research. However, we will try to make some effort to do more than advertise our own work.

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  1. M. R. Rose & E. W. Hutchinson

    Present address: School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California, 92717, USA

  2. P. M. Service

    Present address: Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis, California, 95616, USA

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  1. Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4J1

    M. R. Rose, P. M. Service & E. W. Hutchinson

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  1. Institute of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Volker Loeschcke

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Rose, M.R., Service, P.M., Hutchinson, E.W. (1987). Three Approaches to Trade-Offs in Life-History Evolution. In: Loeschcke, V. (eds) Genetic Constraints on Adaptive Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72770-2_6

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