Life history theory (LHT) is an analytical framework designed to study the diversity of life history strategies used by different organisms throughout...

Look up life history in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Life history may refer to: Life history theory, a theory of biological evolution that seeks to...

life-history paradigm has replaced the r/K selection paradigm, but continues to incorporate its important themes as a subset of life history theory....

The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day. Earth...

the basic unit of reproduction. Cell theory has traditionally been accepted as the governing theory of all life, but some biologists consider non-cellular...

The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the...

either as a superseded scientific theory, or, since the mid-20th century, as a pseudoscience. Vitalism has a long history in medical philosophies: many traditional...

Pioneers of gravitational theory In physics, theories of gravitation postulate mechanisms of interaction governing the movements of bodies with mass....

generational theory, devised by William Strauss and Neil Howe, describes a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history. According...

The life course approach, also known as the life course perspective or life course theory, refers to an approach developed in the 1960s for analyzing...

Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory...

The history of the Big Bang theory began with the Big Bang's development from observations and theoretical considerations. Much of the theoretical work...

The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity, proposed...

Coleridge's theory of life is an attempt by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to understand not just inert or still nature, but also vital nature. He examines this...

The history of electromagnetic theory begins with ancient measures to understand atmospheric electricity, in particular lightning. People then had little...

The history of group theory, a mathematical domain studying groups in their various forms, has evolved in various parallel threads. There are three historical...

it makes evolutionary sense for women to be drawn towards them. Life history theory helps to explain differences in timing of sexual relationships, quantity...

transition from a "pre-modern" or "traditional" to a "modern" society. The theory particularly focuses on the internal factors of a country while assuming...

In biology, the wonderful life theory, also known as contingency theory, postulates that after hundreds of different phyla evolved during the Cambrian...

The history of research into the origin of life encompasses theories about how life began, from ancient times with the philosophy of Aristotle through...

"Correlational and factor analytic support for Rushton's differential K life history theory". Personality and Individual Differences. 45 (6): 440–444. doi:10...

Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and on the principle of entropy. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate...

(discriminative choice of mating partners). Life history theory (that includes Parental Investment Theory) provides an explanation for the above mechanisms...

human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history generally...

The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs"...

directed panspermia. The theory argues that life did not originate on Earth, but instead evolved somewhere else and seeded life as we know it. Panspermia...

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. It has applications in many fields of social science,...

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx located historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together...

Biology Emeritus at Yale University. He is known for his work in life history theory and evolutionary medicine. BA Yale University 1967 MSc University...

history of life, very accessible to the non-specialist; includes extensive discussions of early signatures, fossilization, and organization of life....