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Sep 2026
The ‘big houses‐big cars dilemma’: How do we reconcile the prevalence of positive correlations among life history traits?
Life history theory assumes that there are negative correlations among different components of the life history—investing more in reproduction now means taking resources away from growth, maintenance or the ability to reproduce in the future. The discovery of positive genetic covariances between life‐history tr...
D. Reznick, J. Travis, R. Bassar
· Functional Ecology · 0 citations