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The use of structured-population models for the analysis of life-history evolution has increased dramatically in the last fifteen years or so (see, e.g., Caswell 1989; Tuljapurkar 1990a; Charlesworth 1994). An important subset of these analyses assumes that the demographic components of a life history vary temporally. This branch of research in stochastic demography stems from work on population dynamics in variable environments (Lewontin & Cohen 1969; Cohen 1977, 1979a,b; Tuljapurkar & Orzack 1980; Tuljapurkar 1982a,b), and of course, it stems in a more general way from the pioneering work of Fisher (1930) and Cole (1954) on life-history evolution.
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Orzack, S.H. (1997). Life-History Evolution and Extinction. In: Tuljapurkar, S., Caswell, H. (eds) Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5973-3_8
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