Introduction
Human history is a record of past events. Your personal history might consist of a series of details about the course of your life: your birth weight, when you started walking and talking, your adult height, and other relevant information about your development.
Similarly, an individual organism's life history consists of major events related to its growth, development, reproduction, and survival.In this chapter, we'll discuss traits that characterize the life history of an organism, including age and size at sexual maturity, amount and timing of reproduction, and survival and mortality rates. As we'll see, the timing and nature of life history traits, and therefore the life history itself, are products of adaptation to the environment in which the organism lives. Life history traits, such as reproductive capacity, are an important influence on the growth rate of populations (see Unit 3) and consequently the composition and diversity of communities (Unit 5). We'll also consider how biologists analyze life history patterns in order to understand the trade-offs, constraints, and selection pressures imposed on different stages of an organism's life cycle.
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