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Life histories of colonial invertebrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Judith E. Winston
Judith E. Winston*
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024
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Life history theory has undergone considerable scrutiny since Stearns (1976) pointed out that neither the deterministic nor the stochastic theories, then current, provided an adequate fit for much of the empirical data he reviewed. Today, opinions on the future of life history studies may vary according to one's view of the mode of operation of evolution itself, the gradualist recommending detailed intraspecific studies and selection experiments, and the punctuationist aiming toward models involving laboratory speciation experiments (Stearns 1980).

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Current Happenings
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Paleobiology , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Spring 1981 , pp. 151 - 153
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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