… Body size is a central element in current theories of life-history evolution. Models for optimal
… development time and adult size and that larger size provides a reproductive advantage. …

… will be restricted to pointing out, from a basically ecological viewpoint, some issues at the
core of present debates about life-history evolution, emphasizing body size as a cornerstone. …

… Here we introduce the basics of life history theory and review … evolution of fitness components,
so-called life history traits, and how they interact: size at birth; growth pattern; age and size …

… This could reflect the history of body size and life history evolution of divergent body sizes,
suggesting hypotheses that could be tested by phylogenetic analysis. Third, it should be …

… constraint for life-history evolution. We show that for a range of very simple life histories,
Darwinian … This implies that decreased body size will generally be favored because it increases …

… traits than will endothermic vertebrates, but that we will see consistent links between average
temperature and the life history. For example, a reptile living in warm climates is likely to …

… of the evolution of life history traits: (1) life histories are … the intrinsic factors are tradeoffs among
life history traits and lineage-… two things to understand the evolution of life histories. One is …

… attempts to place life history evolution into an ecological … in our understanding of life history
evolution. There is now fairly … ity), the optimal life history maximizes the Malthusian parameter …

… Although the disturbance model developed here treats a specific kind of evolution (evolution
of optimal body size and timing of metamorphosis), some of the model’s qualitative results …

… The study of life history variation is central to the … , life history traits are plastic and relate
to several sources of variation including body size, which is both a factor and a life history trait …