Life history strategies, which combine schedules of survival, development, and reproduction,
shape how natural selection acts on species' heritable traits and organismal fitness …

In (st) age-structured populations, the long-run population growth rate is negatively affected
by temporal variation in vital rates. In most cases, natural selection should minimize …

In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological
foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such sex differences are also …

The slow–fast continuum is a commonly used framework to describe variation in life-history
strategies across species. Individual life histories have also been assumed to follow a …

Habitat anthropization is a major driver of global biodiversity decline. Although most species
are negatively affected, some benefit from anthropogenic habitat modifications by showing …

Williams' evolutionary theory of senescence based on antagonistic pleiotropy has become a
landmark in evolutionary biology, and more recently in biogerontology and evolutionary …

When facing an emerging infectious disease of conservation concern, we often have little
information on the nature of the host‐parasite interaction to inform management decisions …

Temporal autocorrelation in demographic processes is an important aspect of population
dynamics, but a comprehensive examination of its effects on different life‐history strategies …

Current thinking in life‐history theory and the biology of ageing suggests that ageing rates,
and consequently life spans, evolve largely as a function of trade‐offs with reproduction …

Demographic buffering and lability have been identified as adaptive strategies to optimise
fitness in a fluctuating environment. These are not mutually exclusive, however, we lack …