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The evolution of life histories is atopic of great interest among evolutionary ecologists. The reasons are clear. Patterns of survival and of production of young determine the number of descendants in succeeding generations and hence fitness. Traditionally investigators have used mean values of life table statistics to investigate life history strategies, and indeed much current theory is based on the use of means and on assumptions that constant percentages of individuals breed even in fluctuating environments (reviewed in Stearns 1976). An example of the theory so generated is the much discussed concept of r- and K-selection. Implicit in such theories is the underlying notion that life histories represent some optimal genotype; variation and life history flexibility, whether genetically or environmentally influenced, have been largely ignored (see Nichols et al. 1976 for additional discussion).
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Dingle, H. (1981). Geographic Variation and Behavioral Flexibility in Milkweed Bug Life Histories. In: Denno, R.F., Dingle, H. (eds) Insect Life History Patterns. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5941-1_5
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