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THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES

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The great diversity of life histories seen in the living world needs explaining. Why should some species live for minutes yet be enormously fecund, whereas others like ourselves live for decades and produce very few offspring? Biologists recognize that such variation has evolved because the production of offspring is costly. What is more, there are many detectable trade-offs between components of fecundity, and between fecundity and mortality. For example, high fecundity early in life may be accompanied by increased mortality, thus preventing the production of offspring later in life. As this volume testifies, we are now at an exciting juncture in our search towards understanding the origin of life-history diversity through evolutionary trade-offs. It is becoming increasingly evident, through carefully controlled experimental and comparative studies, how reproductive trade-offs vary with lifestyle. This information, allied with the theoretical framework provided by optimality and population genetic models, furthers our understanding of how evolutionary history and genetically strategic decisions have moulded life-history diversity. In addition to understanding diversity, we are also beginning to understand, in evolutionary, functional and physiological terms, the processes that have resulted in such commonplace phenomena as senescence and weaning conflict. This volume shows how biology is now a truly integrated field in which ecologists, ethologists, physiologists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists, and comparative anatomists all have their parts to play.

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Transactions: Biological Sciences

Series B Volume 333 Number 1268 30 September 1991

CONTENTS

Molecules through time: fossil molecules and biochemical systematics A Discussion organized and edited by G. Eglinton and G. B. Curry

EGLINTON, G. & LOGAN, G. A. pages 315-328 Molecular preservation

DE LEEUW, J. W., VAN BERGEN, P. F., VAN AARSSEN, B. G. K., GATELLIER, J.-P. L. A., SINNINGHE DAMSTE', J. S. & COLLINSON, M. E. 329-337

Resistant biomacromolecules as major contributors to kerogen

ECKARDT, C. B., KEELY, B. J., WARING, J. R., CHICARELLI, M. I. & MAXWELL, J. R. 339-348

Preservation of chlorophyll-derived pigments in sedimentary organic matter

BADA, J. L. 349-358 Amino acid cosmogeochemistry

CURRY, G. B., CUSACK, M., WALTON, D., ENDO, K., CLEGG, H., ABBOTT, G. & ARMSTRONG, H. 359-366

Biogeochemistry of brachiopod intracrystalline molecules

MACKO, S. A. & ENGEL, M. H. 367-374 Assessment of indigeneity in fossil organic matter: amino acids and stable isotopes

LOWENSTEIN, J. M. & SCHEUENSTUHL, G. 375-380 Immunological methods in molecular palaeontology

AMBLER, R. P. & DANIEL, M. 381-389 Proteins and molecular palaeontology

RUNNEGAR, B. 391-397 Nucleic acid and protein clocks

HAGELBERG, E., ALLEN, T., BELL, L. S., BOYDE, A., JONES, S. J. & CLEGG, J. B. 399-407 Analysis of ancient bone DNA: techniques and applications

HORAI, S., KONDO, R., MURAYAMA, K., HAYASHI, S., KOIKE, H. & NAKAI, N. 409-417 Phylogenetic affiliation of ancient and contemporary humans inferred from mitochondrial DNA

GOLENBERG, E. M. 419-427 Amplification and analysis of Miocene plant fossil DNA

SIDOW, A., WILSON, A. C. & PAABO, S. 429-433 Bacterial DNA in Clarkia fossils

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